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[Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike] – Antique Photo Print

[Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike], c1896. — historic photograph
[Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike], c1896.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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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A young messenger boy poses with his bicycle in this c1896 photoprint, one of a series titled "Street types of New York City" that the Staten Island photographer Elizabeth Alice Austen copyrighted. The bicycle was a common tool for telegraph and delivery messengers in the 1890s, when the bicycle craze had put wheels on city streets and made quick errands a job for boys. The catalog tags the picture under child labor as well as occupations, which points to the era's debates over young workers in the city. The record notes that its details come from an unverified caption card, so the boy's identity and exact location remain uncertain.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint copyrighted by Elizabeth Alice Austen. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Occupations; Child Labor--Messengers; Bicycles.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,291 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149786

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