Newsboy Club. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. – Antique Wall Art
(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 Newsboy Club. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Newsboy Club. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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The setting is what distinguishes this picture: a Boston newsboys' club where boys who sold papers on the street gathered, with a billiard table in view. Lewis Hine made the photograph in October 1909 while documenting street trades for the National Child Labor Committee, which used his pictures to press for limits on child labor. The attribution to Hine rests on the print's provenance and its place in an album of street trades, not on a signature. Hine's images were meant for reformers and legislators, and this one shows how boys in the city spent the hours between selling papers.
| Created / published | 1909 October. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print.1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | Photographic prints.Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 0950. |
| Subjects | Boys. Newspaper vendors. Billiards.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116827 |
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