Children Play "Ring Around the Rosie" in Chicago, Illinois, April 1941

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Courtesy of Library of Congress, Rosskam, Edwin, "Children playing 'ring around a rosie' in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois," April 1941

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The children in this photo live in Chicago, Illinois. They are playing "ring around the rosie" on the sidewalk. The ring around the rosie game involves children forming a ring and dancing in a circle around a person. When they say the final line everyone stoops or curtsies. The slowest child to do so becomes the "rosie" and takes their place in the center of the ring.

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Rosskam, Edwin, "Children playing 'ring around a rosie' in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois," April 1941. Courtesy of Library of Congress