Show and tell: A teenage model builder (at right) shows three younger boys the fine points of building model airplanes. A collection of saws and other tools hangs on the wall behind them. Risdon Tillery made the photograph at the Greenwich House community center in New York City in May 1944. Full caption: “New York, New York. A fifteen-year-old expert on model airplanes who formerly spent all day Saturdays at the movies, now devoting his time to the instruction of younger boys enrolled in the day care program at Greenwich House, a community center.”

Risdon Tillery
“New York, New York. A fifteen-year-old expert on model airplanes ... ” May 1944. (Full caption in ALT text)
Source: FSA/OWI Collection, Library of Congress
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