On the Scenic Railway, The Newsboys' Picnic [...] Location: Cincinnati, Ohio. – Vintage Wall Art
![On the Scenic Railway, The Newsboys' Picnic [...] Location: Cincinnati, Ohio., 1908 August. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/230ba486b216-L.webp)
(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: On the Scenic Railway, The Newsboys' Picnic [...] Location: Cincinnati, Ohio., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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On the Scenic Railway, The Newsboys' Picnic [...] Location: Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Riding a scenic railway, an early roller coaster, sets this August 1908 scene apart from the street-corner portraits of young newsboys in the same album. The National Child Labor Committee caption card calls it a newsboys' picnic, but its wording is cut off after that word, so the full context is uncertain. Lewis Hine, who worked for the committee documenting child labor across the country, is credited based on the print's provenance. The outing offers a glimpse of leisure that contrasts with the daily work of selling papers that fills Hine's street trades series.
| Created / published | 1908 August. |
|---|---|
| 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. 0018. After the word Picnic" the words are cut off on caption card." |
| Subjects | Newspaper vendors. Roller coasters.United States--Ohio--Cincinnati. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128490 |
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