Vendor in Boston Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. – Vintage 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 Vendor in Boston Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Vendor in Boston Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boys, a man, and horses gather at a Boston market in October 1909, a scene that places this print among the street trades pictures Lewis Hine made for the National Child Labor Committee. The caption card that came with it supplies the title, and the attribution to Hine rests on the print's provenance, including its place in an album labeled "Street trades." Hine's work for the committee used images like this to show young boys peddling goods on city streets, at a time when child labor laws were weak and uneven. Notice how the horses and the vendors share the frame, a sign of how much city commerce depended on animal power.
| 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: Street trades. Hine no. 0931. |
| Subjects | Boys. Peddlers. Men. Horses.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118532 |
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