Children, unaware of the horror of war, play in front of the shrapnel-hit facade of No 10 Peironcely street, Madrid, Spain. November-December 1936. (Photo by Robert Capa/International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos)





These children having their weight checked during the periodic physical examination in Hiroshima, Japan on August 2, 1952, were born during the A-bomb year. They are attending the elementary school attached to Hiroshima University. (Photo by AP Photo/Asahi)





Typical scene at Waterloo Station as a youngster guards luggage and baby while waiting for train to evacuate to the country, in London August 25, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)





One of the games played at every Halloween party is eating, or rather, trying to eat apple suspended on a string with your hand behind you. They were few of the children of New York's Little Italy who were guests at the Annual Halloween Party sponsored by the Children's Aid Society in New York, October 25, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)





Kids in Halloween costumes are seen through a fisheye lens, October 31, 1966. Location is unknown. (Photo by AP Photo)





Vice President Richard M. Nixon addresses a crowd at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, October 29, 1960, while campaigning for president against Sen. John F. Kennedy. Next to him stands 10-year-old Tom Lemke, wearing a Halloween ghost costume that reads “Jack Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance”, referring to John F. Kennedy. When Nixon spotted to boy in the crowd, he called attention to the youngster. (Photo by AP Photo)





These jack-o-lanterns offer Dickie Clark, 13, of St. Paul a stern warning to mind his manners on Halloween, October 29, 1965. (Photo by AP Photo)





Dressed in their bunny outfits, Warren and Missey (below) Millard of Miami, Fla., October 25, 1974, are ready for a night of trick or treating on Halloween. (Photo by AP Photo)





Second-graders pick their pumpkins during a class outing October 19, 1984, at a farm next to their school near Doylestown, Pa. While their pumpkin-toting techniques vary, the children will soon have their Halloween jack-o-lanterns ready for October's end. (Photo by George Widman/AP Photo)



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Preparing For Halloween, and learning a new “art” as well are these fifth and sixth graders at Edison grade school in 1947. Lloyd Hammer, 10, and Claudia Hendershot, 11, apply strips from an old copy of The Denver Post to the face of victim Patricia Durbin, 11. When the process is finished, the kids will have another mask like that in the foreground. (Photo by O. A. Sealy/The Denver Post)





The game of badminton, which is too vigorous even for some of the older set, was found to be a bit too speedy for two-year-old beginner Rhonda Duckett who took racquet in hand for the first time, July 12, 1965 in Marion, Indiana. The shuttlecock bounces off her head as she fails to return a serve. (Photo by Bob Daugherty/AP Photo)





Children play cards while sitting on the curb in a Brooklyn slum in New York, July 19, 1939. (Photo by AP Photo)





Age is no bar to employment in China, here youngsters are put to work carrying water to the stone breakers on June 1, 1949. Their ages are about 7 years and their wages almost nothing per day, they are in the employ of Chinese-get rich quick real estate operators from Shanghai. (Photo by AP Photo)





Rickets, curvature of the spine and other physical defects in children brought about by shelter life and war conditions generally are now being cured at St. Mar'ys Hospital in East London where a special clinic has been opened through the good braces of the British War Relief Society of America. With the aid of Neumann-Neurode exercises which take the form of Baby Gymnastics, Mrs. Estrid Dane, whose efforts in this direction have gained for her world-wide recognition, is doing wonderful work in building up mentally and physically healthy children. Four-year-old Una Bailey, one of the many Blitz-shocked babies now receiving treatment at the clinic is here been doing exercises on a neck-rest in East London, June 3, 1943. (Photo by AP Photo)





The combination of an imaginative photographer and six neighborhood kids raising the Flag Day colors over their vacant lot fort recreates the famed Iwo Jima flag raising scene of World War II, at Lakewood Plaza, near Long Beach, Calif., June 14, 1955. The junior size “Marines” are left to right: Mike McChargue, 11; Larry Hoshe 8; George Kayuck, 8; Mike Jones, 8; Dick Sandstrom, 8, and Casy Vose, 8. (Photo by AP Photo)





Two apprehensive looking girls with their feet in baths receive treatment from a nurse in Bristol health centre's orthopaedic department, July 1948. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)





With the help of some fake teeth and multiple exposures, New York AP photographer Eddie Adams' daughter Susan is transformed into a little ghoul on Halloween night, October 31, 1966. (Photo by Eddie Adams/AP Photo)





Jimmy Rooney, 9, of Newburyport, is overwhelmed by a baseball fielder's glove that is a family heirloom on September 8, 1978. The glove is about two feet across, weighs 10 pounds and carries the faintly discernible auto-graphs of many famous baseball players, among them Babe Ruth, Bob Veach and Bob Feller. Jimmy's grandfather bought the glove years ago for $10 and occasionally displayed it in his Newburyport hardware store. The big mitt is about 50 years old. (Photo by AP Photo)





Another of the many displays to brief youngsters on the fundamentals of atomic energy at the Atomic Energy Commission's Atomsville, U.S.A., area is this one which demonstrates relative weight. By pushing the oversize buttons connected to equal size cubes of different elements behind the portholes, the children learn that size and weight of copper, Iron, lead and uranium blocks are deceiving. Uranium is ten times as heavy as the same size block of aluminum. Atomsville is the AEC's exhibit for children at the World's Fair Hall of Science pavilion in New York on September 22, 1964. (Photo by AP Photo/DP)





School children swing in unison to group singing in their classroom in Shanghai on September 23, 1966. Their song is based mainly on the writings of Mao Tse-Tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. Such political indoctrination is an important part of the school curriculum. (Photo by AP Photo)





Even the youngsters in the Principal industry here take their business literature seriously. Here Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten absorb the latest news from trade papers, while breakfasting at the Brown Derby in Hollywood, Los Angeles on September 29, 1947. (Photo by AP Photo)