Playgrounds

Learn all about how we got playgrounds, and why they are the way they are!

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Children's Playground in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

The Hull House

Jane Addams, co-founder of the Hull House

Seward Park, NYC

Junk Playground, London

Retired Concrete Animal Playground Structure

Mid-Century Space Age Playgrounds

Ancient Greek Sculpture (1450 - 1300 BCE) 

5th century Buddhist fresco of deity Naga Irandati on a swing.

Ceramic figurine from the Totonac people (Mexico, 600 - 900 CE)

Ancient Greek Art from the 5th Century BCE

A Merry-Go-Round circa 1920

Jungle Gym Patent