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[Street types of New York City: Newsboys] – Vintage Photo Print

[Street types of New York City: Newsboys], c1896. — historic photograph
[Street types of New York City: Newsboys], c1896.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Part of Elizabeth Alice Austen's "Street types of New York City" series, this c1896 print shows a newsboy, one of the most familiar working figures on the city's sidewalks and street corners in the late 1800s. Austen, a Staten Island photographer best known for pictures of her family and home, copyrighted the image under her own name. Newsboys sold papers for pennies, often starting young and working long hours, which is why the record also files the picture under child labor. The print offers a useful look at street commerce and at the children who depended on it.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint copyrighted by Elizabeth Alice Austen. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Occupations; Child labor--Newsboys.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,334 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149785

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