Entitled: "Boy in cowboy costume". Many children participate in a form of role-playing known as make believe, wherein they adopt certain roles such as doctor and act out those roles in character. Sometimes make believe adopts an oppositional nature, resulting in games such as cops and robbers. Photographed by Harris & Ewing, 1928.

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"I'm a rootin', tootin' cowboy!", 1928

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