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Flipping Cars--Out for Mischief. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. – Vintage Wall Art

Flipping Cars--Out for Mischief. Location: Boston, Massachusetts., 1909 October. — historic photograph
Flipping Cars--Out for Mischief. Location: Boston, Massachusetts., 1909 October.. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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This rare historic photograph captures Flipping Cars--Out for Mischief. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two boys are caught in the act of hitching rides on the back of a streetcar, the kind of stunt the title "Flipping Cars" refers to. The photograph is attributed to Lewis Hine, who documented child labor and street life for the National Child Labor Committee in the years around 1909, and the caption card suggests that the reformers saw this mischief as part of a larger concern. By then electric streetcars had become the main way to cross Boston's crowded streets, and boys who clung to moving cars risked falls and collisions with other traffic. The picture offers a quick look at how children made use of the city's busy streets.

Created / published1909 October.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 0888.
SubjectsBoys. Hitchhiking. City & town life. Street railroads.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116836

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