An old time newsboy. Location: St. Louis, Missouri. – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: An old time newsboy. Location: St. Louis, Missouri., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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An old time newsboy. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.
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Unlike many of the street-trade pictures in this group, which show young boys, this one is titled "An old time newsboy," suggesting an older vendor who had worked the street corners for years. Lewis Hine made it in St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1910, while documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee. The caption card supplied the title, and the print is attributed to Hine on the basis of its provenance, as it appears in an album of street-trade photographs. Newsboys who sold papers on busy downtown corners were a common sight in American cities of the period, and Hine's pictures of them recorded the working conditions of urban street life.
| Created / published | 1910 May. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1474. |
| Subjects | Men. Newspaper vendors.United States--Missouri--St. Louis. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,192 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147255 |
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