Boston, Market. 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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Boston, Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Boston, Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boys at work in a Boston market in October 1909 set this print apart from the other market scenes on the board, and they place it among the street-trade studies Lewis Hine made for the National Child Labor Committee. Hine traveled widely to document young workers, and his photographs of children selling goods and taking odd jobs in city streets helped build public support for child labor laws. The title comes from the caption card that accompanied the print, and the attribution to Hine rests on its provenance rather than on a signature. The image is worth studying for how it shows children's labor woven into everyday urban commerce.
| Created / published | 1909 October. |
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| 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. 0928. |
| Subjects | Boys. Street vendors. Markets. City & town life.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114011 |
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