Everyone's childhood has experienced this, emotional images that can melt the hearts of viewers

   
 
Little girl looking at dolls with emotional eyes

 

 
Shop Window, Paris, 1947

 

 
Store window of a doll shop, ca. 1920s
 
A little girl in front of a storefront with her sweater buttoned wrong

 

At a Christmas store window, New York

 

At a doll shop, ca. 1950s

 

Boy looking at Christmas toys in a shop window, New York, ca. 1910

 

Child enchanted with dolls at Macy’s, New York, 1949

 

Child staring into a bakery window, London, 1935

 

 
Children at the shop window at Christmas time, 1956

 

Children at the toy store window at Christmas during World War II

 

Children looking at Christmas cards in New York, 1910

 

Christmas shopping, 1956

 

Christmas window display, ca. 1920s

 

Christmas window dreaming, 1948

 

Group of warmly dressed children wistfully gaze at the elaborate window display of Christmas toys, 1915

 

 

 

 
In front of the old FAO Schwarz Toy Store, New York, 1955