Below are 20 fascinating vintage photographs capture children’s life in France, Switzerland and the United States by LIFE photographer Yale Joel from the 1940s to 1960s:
Small flock of chickens in Swiss farmyard being fed by girl of the farm family, Switzerland, 1947.
Elementary school music teacher playing F-Major chord on piano while corresponding keys light up on plastic keyboard model above him as do finger chart for L & R hand & notation for Treble a Bass clefs while student watch & immitate on dummy keyboards, 1947.
A boy dancing while the French gypsies around him playing music and watching, France, 1948.
Children watching circus show, Switzerland, 1948.
Child actor Chet R. Allen mulls over his lines in a classroom in which boys’ choir used as a dressing room, 1952.
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