Name: Boys of the Dumps - South Boston. Fields now being filled in for a Play Ground. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Oct. 1909. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. – Historic Print
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Name: Boys of the Dumps - South Boston. Fields now being filled in for a Play Ground. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Oct. 1909. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boys picking through refuse at a South Boston dump form the subject of this October 1909 view, taken at a site the caption notes was being filled in to become a playground. The photograph is attributed to Lewis Hine, who documented young workers and urban poverty for the National Child Labor Committee in the early 1900s. Scavenging among city refuse was a common way for poor children to find items to sell or reuse, and the image shows how such work fit into the daily life of working-class neighborhoods. The shift from dumps to playgrounds also reflects the reform-minded public health efforts of the period.
| Created / published | 1909 October. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 0947. |
| Subjects | Boys. City & town life. Scavenging. Refuse disposal.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-191637 |
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