Shot in 1938, this film captures scenes of children and teenagers in Agua Dulce, Texas filing out of the schoolhouse into the school yard to participate in games of baseball, volleyball, tennis, football, jump rope, and track and field activities. This film is part of a larger collection of itinerant films made by Arthur J. Higgins. Higgins was an itinerant filmmaker in the 1930s and 40s who visited towns across the country with his wife, spending several days recording posed scenes of daily life there that focused primarily on the residents, for whom the film was typically shown at a local theater.

Nueces County Agua Dulce

Agua Dulce Nueces County Texas school schoolhouse schoolyard school yard students boy boys

girl girls men women teachers teacher recess kid kids child

children Mexican-American Mexican-Americans principal tennis letter sweater varsity sweater volleyball athletics team

teammates teammate letterman teens teenager teenagers sports recreation baseball softball

jump rope jumping rope gymnastics acrobatics tumbling merry-go-round football game track and field shotput

shot put discus discus throw race races racing sprint sprints athlete athletes

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