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Group of newsboys at the Times Office, Hartford, Conn. The newsgirls mingle and jostle these boys in the office and in the yard. Location: Hartford, Connecticut. – Vintage Wall Art

Group of newsboys at the Times Office, Hartford, Conn. The newsgirls mingle and jostle these boys in the office and in the yard. Location: Hartford, Connecticut., 1909 March. — historic photograph
Group of newsboys at the Times Office, Hartford, Conn. The newsgirls mingle and jostle these boys in the office and in the yard. Location: Hartford, Connecticut., 1909 March.. Historic photograph from the Hartford 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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A window into the past: Group of newsboys at the Times Office, Hartford, Conn. The newsgirls mingle and jostle these boys in the office and in the yard. Location: Hartford, Connecticut., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Group of newsboys at the Times Office, Hartford, Conn. The newsgirls mingle and jostle these boys in the office and in the yard. Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

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Unlike most of the street-trade pictures in this set, this one shows girls among the boys. The record notes that the newsgirls mingle and jostle the boys both inside the Hartford Times office and out in its yard. Lewis Hine took it in March 1909 while documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee, which used his photographs to argue for limits on young workers. Newsboys selling papers on city streets were a common sight then, and the scene here suggests how the work drew in children of both sexes.

Created / published1909 March.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 0616.
SubjectsBoys. Newspaper vendors.United States--Connecticut--Hartford.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,056 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169670

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