Children playing on a seesaw |
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| Title : | Children playing on a seesaw |
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| Source : | B 48010 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1900 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Children playing on a homemade seesaw consisting of a plank laid across a saw horse. Seesaws are among the most popular pieces of play equipment and in this form are the simplest to make. The question of balancing the weight distribution is among the earliest practical examples of physics in the playground. Surprisingly there appears to be only one schoolyard rhyme for seesaws:
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| Period : | 1884-1913 |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Berry, Pauline. Playgrounds that work: creating outdoor play environments for children birth to eight years, Baulkham Hills, N.S.W.: Pademelon Press, 2001 Dow, Gwyn and June Factor (eds.) Australian childhood: an anthology, South Yarra, Vic.: McPhee Gribble, 1991 The endless playground: celebrating Australian childhood compiled and edited by Paul Cliff; with introductory essays by Robert Holden and features by Jack Bedson ... [et al.] Canberra National Library of Australia, 2000 Opie, Iona and Peter (eds.) The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980, c1951 |
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| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. To be a child August 2004- |
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