The play ground;
The Play Ground is a mid-nineteenth-century American book of games and outdoor amusements, published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1866 for young readers. Its woodcut pictures show boys at play, with figures using a hand-held apparatus, a ball game on a lawn, and a leapfrog-style wrestling pose. Designers could draw on the plain, lively line work and the figures' period clothing for scenes of childhood recreation.
