Quinceañera (which translates literally as one who is fifteen) is a celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday, and marks her transition from childhood to adulthood.
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Studious & Crafty
Solemn class portraits from young adults c. 1900s in Kentucky, reading, writing, arithmetic, knitting and embroidery.
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I Don’t Like Beer
Pre-teen punk machine! Astonishing 8 year old Venus DeBaun was featured in this 1982 Dutch documentary on the So.
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Cairo College Girls of Science and Fine Art
Students of fine arts and biology in Cairo, 1987.
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Israeli Teens in the ’90s
Above, teens in Jerusalem during Purim, 1998.
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East Kentucky Teens, 1964
Photographs taken of the Cornett family of Eastern Kentucky in 1964, by a 28 year old William Gale Gedney.
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Girl Scouts, 1918
Margaret and Dorothy star in the Girl Scouts propaganda/silent film ‘The Golden Eaglet’ released in 1918, soon after WWI.
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Samantha Smith and Yuri Andropov
Samantha Smith is remembered for her courage and efforts for peace in writing a letter to Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov in 1982.
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Wang Yani, Painter Prodigy
Wang Yani, born in China in 1975, is the youngest ever artist to have a solo show at The Smithsonian; she was fourteen.
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Chloe Sevigny, 1992
Before receiving the coveted ‘It Girl’ title, Chloe Sevigny was just another kid ditching school, taking the train into Manhattan to hang out in Washington Square Park.