Tramp begging food – 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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A window into the past: Tramp begging food, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Tramp begging food
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A photographic print titled "Tramp begging food," dated around 1919, shows a figure of the itinerant laborer that Americans of the period called a tramp, a category that drew both pity and suspicion. Tramps moved from town to town by freight train and on foot, often looking for odd jobs, and many depended on handouts at back doors and church or charity kitchens. The print was registered for copyright under the name N.D. Hillis, which suggests it was made for wide circulation rather than as a private record. Its subject headings, which pair tramps with charity and with eating and drinking, point to how the scene was meant to be read at the time.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J237610 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by N.D. Hillis. |
| Subjects | Tramps--1910-1920. Charity--1910-1920. Eating & drinking--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,295 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178918 |
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