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| 1983: Year of the Child |
Its playtime with a purpose in Mongolia, building robots and archery practice.
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| 1986:25th Anniversary of Children's Day Care Centres |
Meanwhile in Cuba small children seem to be playing with boxes.
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| 1968: Paintings of Children |
This little girl has a basket full of cherries. It is a painting by
John Russell (1745-1806), an English portrait painter who worked in oil and pastels travelling extensively around the country, his paintings of children usually done in pastels. Girl Presenting Cherries can be seen in the Louvre, Paris.
A charming house in Horn, Germany (now a suburb of Hamburg) which was the start of the Rauhe House Childrens Homes in 1833. The Rauhe House was gifted to the founder Johann Hinrich Wichern who moved here with his wife and mother to look after poor boys, the homes later expanded to include all neglected children.
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| 1983: 150th Anniversary of Das Rauhe Haus (Design - Börnson) |
This building was the starting point of the diverse social and education activities of the
Rauhe House homes. The children lived in 'families' of 12 to 15, a great contrast to the large institutions.
The Sunday Stamps prompt this week is - children - play along at
See It On A Postcard
3 comments:
All lovely stamps. Especially the style of the illustrations on the stamps from Mongolia has caught my eye. So eighties!
Mongolian stamps are always so colourful and happy looking.
I was just reading an article on Danish homes for children that sound similar to these Rauch homes.
Mongolia seems to be the favourites with us all but it's difficult to not pick the other fine stamps.
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