Mister, Give me a Lift? Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Mister, Give me a Lift? Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mister, Give me a Lift? Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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A boy hanging onto the back of a cart, with a man nearby, sets this Boston view apart from the other street scenes on the board. The record dates it to October 1909 and attributes it to Lewis Hine, who was then photographing working children for the National Child Labor Committee. The title comes from the committee's caption card and reads as a plea, the kind of request a boy might make to a driver for a free ride. Hine's street photographs from these years often show young workers among adults and horse-drawn traffic, which makes them useful records of everyday city labor.
| 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. 0874. |
| Subjects | Boys. Men. City & town life. Carts & wagons.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,090 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116587 |
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