In the late 1940s Cherry documented violence in children’s games—cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, and these disturbing images of boys playing at lynching. The series was published by ’48 Magazine of the Year; Photography republished them in 1952, commenting, “The pictures are not pretty, but they do represent an attempt to . . . use a camera as a tool for social research.” Cherry had also submitted them to McCall’s, a women’s magazine, which rejected them as “a little too real for magazine use.”