Where the boys spend their money. Location: St. Louis, Missouri. – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Where the boys spend their money. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Where the boys spend their money. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.
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A boy seen from behind, cap on his head, faces a theater front advertising 25 cent matinees every day, and the caption card gives the picture its blunt title, "Where the boys spend their money." The photograph is attributed to Lewis Hine on the basis of its provenance and dates to May 1910, when Hine was documenting working children in cities for the National Child Labor Committee. Movie houses were then a new and inexpensive entertainment, and reformers worried about how young workers spent their small wages and free afternoons. The picture turns that concern into a study of one boy standing at the edge of the amusement being sold to him.
| 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: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1476-A. Rear view, boy in cap 25 cents Matinees every day ."" |
| Subjects | Boys. Motion picture theaters. Leisure.United States--Missouri--St. Louis. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,237 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116593 |
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