Five children enjoy a canoe ride in the backyard of a house at 2235 Creston Avenue near 182 Street. Meanwhile, a boy in the water looks on while his friend (Bronx Democratic leader Charles Buckley) watches from shore with his dog nearby.
School children eat their lunch sitting on a bench at Old P.S.8 in Bedford Park. They have lunch box thermoses and sandwiches. The school has since been demolished.
A P.S. 8 student is seen dressed in a home made Little Bo Peep paper costume. Children who had costumes walked in the front of the annual school parade.
Following a church wedding and wearing attire rented by a photograph studio, the teenaged bride and groom happily follow their ring bearer and flower girl.
This boy lives at the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin Group Home in the Laconia neighborhood. A heart-shaped gift from his girl friend is displayed on the wall. He is nearing 18 years of age and must soon leave the home.
A child jumps from an abandoned building in Melrose onto a mattress below. He seems unaware of any possible danger or that he could miss his mark as he aims for a soft landing on the mattress.
A pre-school boy at the Riverdale Temple Nursery School seems lost in thought. When told by the photographer that he looked like "an angel in a Renaissance painting" he remarked that he had been told that before.
