Odd Playground Gate Bars Older Children, 1937

Cut out of a high, galvanized-iron fence and roughly resembling a keyhole, a silhouette of an average ten-year-old child serves as an entrance gate to a new playground for small children in an eastern city, in 1937. Only those boys and girls who can pass through the silhouette opening without stooping or squeezing through sidewise are allowed to enter the play area.

The photograph shows a playground instructor halting a girl who is too tall to enter without stooping.