![Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 7. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Visits houses of prostitution. Guides soldiers to segregated district. Smokes. Still at school and works from 8:30 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/frank-f-gibson-1305-linden-st-western-union-telegraph-co-messenger-no-7-14-640.jpg "Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 7. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Visits houses of prostitution. Guides soldiers to segregated district. Smokes. Still at school and works from 8:30 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.")
![[Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1896/01/01/street-types-of-new-york-city-messenger-boy-and-bike-640.jpg "[Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike]")
[Street types of New York City: Messenger boy and bike]
Photoprint copyrighted by Elizabeth Alice Austen. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Occupations; Child Labor Messengers; Bicycles.
![Midnight 4, 11,08. Messenger Boys in heart of Tenderloin. Youngest - Badge No. 524. Herman Unslowitz, Said 15 yrs. old. Oldest Badge 605. From Wes[tern] Union Tel[egraph] Office, 172 Fifth Avenue. Location: New York, New York (State)](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1908/01/01/midnight-4-1108-messenger-boys-in-heart-of-tenderloin-youngest-badge-no-524-640.jpg "Midnight 4, 11,08. Messenger Boys in heart of Tenderloin. Youngest - Badge No. 524. Herman Unslowitz, Said 15 yrs. old. Oldest Badge 605. From Wes[tern] Union Tel[egraph] Office, 172 Fifth Avenue. Location: New York, New York (State)"){kind=icon}
Messenger Boys, New Haven, Conn. - March
Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine.Artist Bio: American, 1874 - 1940.Creation Date: 1909.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Daniel D. Bumstea.Accession Number: 1985.037.007
![Messenger boys. They work until 11 P.M. New Haven, Connecticut / Photo by [Lewis W. Hine]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1909/01/01/messenger-boys-they-work-until-11-pm-new-haven-connecticut-photo-by-lewis-w-640.jpg "Messenger boys. They work until 11 P.M. New Haven, Connecticut / Photo by [Lewis W. Hine]")
Messenger Boys, New Haven, Conn. - March
Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine.Artist Bio: American, 1874 - 1940.Creation Date: 1909.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Daniel D. Bumstead.Accession Number: 1985.037.008
![11 P.M. Messenger boys going home at close of shift. One called away to go with message. Where? Both telegraph offices are almost next door to a caf --boulevard frequented by street walkers and worse? Many of there women parade the streets and the boys meet them constan[t]ly and are called frequently into house of ill repute. Location: New Haven, Connecticut.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1909/01/01/11-pm-messenger-boys-going-home-at-close-of-shift-one-called-away-to-go-with-640.jpg "11 P.M. Messenger boys going home at close of shift. One called away to go with message. Where? Both telegraph offices are almost next door to a caf --boulevard frequented by street walkers and worse? Many of there women parade the streets and the boys meet them constan[t]ly and are called frequently into house of ill repute. Location: New Haven, Connecticut.")
![[John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messenger # 9. 15 years of age. In service 1 year. Visits houses of prostitution. Sometimes smokes. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. ]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/john-towers-627-s-connell-street-postal-telegraph-company-messenger-9-15-years-640.jpg "[John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messenger # 9. 15 years of age. In service 1 year. Visits houses of prostitution. Sometimes smokes. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. ]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.")
![Earle Griffith and Eddie Tahoory, working for the Dime Messenger Service. They said they never knew when they were going to get home at night. Usually work one or more nights a week, and have worked until after midnight. They said last Christmas their office had a 9 yr. old boy running errands for them, and that he made a great deal of money from tips. They make about $7 a week and more, sometimes. Said "The office is not allowed to send us into the red light district but we go when a call sends us. Not very often." Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1912/01/01/earle-griffith-and-eddie-tahoory-working-for-the-dime-messenger-service-they-640.jpg "Earle Griffith and Eddie Tahoory, working for the Dime Messenger Service. They said they never knew when they were going to get home at night. Usually work one or more nights a week, and have worked until after midnight. They said last Christmas their office had a 9 yr. old boy running errands for them, and that he made a great deal of money from tips. They make about $7 a week and more, sometimes. Said \"The office is not allowed to send us into the red light district but we go when a call sends us. Not very often.\" Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia].")
![Happy but thoughtless. The messenger service is poor training for him. (Works for Dime Messenger Service). Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1912/01/01/happy-but-thoughtless-the-messenger-service-is-poor-training-for-him-works-640.jpg "Happy but thoughtless. The messenger service is poor training for him. (Works for Dime Messenger Service). Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia]")
![Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1913/01/01/some-results-of-messenger-and-newsboy-work-for-nine-years-this-sixteen-year-640.jpg "Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me \"There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there.\" Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.")
![Preston DeCosta [i.e., De Costa?], fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger Service. I ran across him and took photos while he was carrying notes back and forth between a prostitute in jail and a pimp in the Red Light. He had read all the notes and knew all about the correspondence. He was a fine grained adolescent boy. Has been delivering message and drugs in the Red Light for 6 months and knows the ropes thoroughly. "A lot of these girls are my regular customers. I carry 'em messages and get 'em drinks, drugs, etc. Also go to the bank with money for 'em. If a fellow treats 'em right, they'll call him by number and give him all their work. I got a box full of photos I took of these girls - some of 'em I took in their room." Works until 11:00 P.M. Location: San Antonio, Texas.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1913/01/01/preston-decosta-ie-de-costa-fifteen-year-old-messenger-3-for-bellevue-messenger-640.jpg "Preston DeCosta [i.e., De Costa?], fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger Service. I ran across him and took photos while he was carrying notes back and forth between a prostitute in jail and a pimp in the Red Light. He had read all the notes and knew all about the correspondence. He was a fine grained adolescent boy. Has been delivering message and drugs in the Red Light for 6 months and knows the ropes thoroughly. \"A lot of these girls are my regular customers. I carry 'em messages and get 'em drinks, drugs, etc. Also go to the bank with money for 'em. If a fellow treats 'em right, they'll call him by number and give him all their work. I got a box full of photos I took of these girls - some of 'em I took in their room.\" Works until 11:00 P.M. Location: San Antonio, Texas.")
Strikes - messenger boys, N.Y. - surrounding a scab
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Strikes; Child labor.
![Strikes - Messenger boys, N.Y.--At 6th Ave. & 32nd St. Nov. 1916]](https://cdn18.picryl.com/photo/2019/11/28/strikes-messenger-boys-ny-at-6th-ave-and-32nd-st-nov-1916-494e50-640.jpg "Strikes - Messenger boys, N.Y.--At 6th Ave. & 32nd St. Nov. 1916]")
Strikes - Messenger boys, N.Y.--At 6th Ave. & 32nd St. Nov. 1916]
12 messenger boys and two men posed. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-B2-4042-4
![Group of messengers, mostly Metropolitan Messenger and Mailing Co., on Tremont Street at 3:15 p.m. Some of the sweller [i.e., smaller?] ones are: Timothy Sexton,325 Columbia Street, Cambridge. Harry S. Friedman, 93 Brighton Street, Boston. Joseph Selva, 6 Fourth Street, East Cambridge. George O. Mara, 10 Leyland Street. Smallest one is: Soll Hamber, 71 Madison Avenue, Everett. He is Messenger #18 for Special Delivery Messenger Co., 3 Somerset Street. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1917/01/01/group-of-messengers-mostly-metropolitan-messenger-and-mailing-co-on-tremont-640.jpg "Group of messengers, mostly Metropolitan Messenger and Mailing Co., on Tremont Street at 3:15 p.m. Some of the sweller [i.e., smaller?] ones are: Timothy Sexton,325 Columbia Street, Cambridge. Harry S. Friedman, 93 Brighton Street, Boston. Joseph Selva, 6 Fourth Street, East Cambridge. George O. Mara, 10 Leyland Street. Smallest one is: Soll Hamber, 71 Madison Avenue, Everett. He is Messenger #18 for Special Delivery Messenger Co., 3 Somerset Street. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.")
![No more messenger boys for the National Woman's Party--from president to messenger all the members of the staff are feminine. This is in accordance with the stipulation of Mrs. Belmont when she donated the National Women's [i.e., Woman's] Party headquarters. Photo of Julia Obear, messenger](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1922/01/01/no-more-messenger-boys-for-the-national-womans-party-from-president-to-messenger-640.jpg "No more messenger boys for the National Woman's Party--from president to messenger all the members of the staff are feminine. This is in accordance with the stipulation of Mrs. Belmont when she donated the National Women's [i.e., Woman's] Party headquarters. Photo of Julia Obear, messenger")
No more messenger boys for the National Woman's Party--from president ...
Julia Obear, full-length portrait, with bicycle, facing right.
![New general post office bldg. [i.e., building] in Jerusalem, opened June 17, 1938 by H.E. [i.e., His Excellency] Messenger boy, with scissors on tray, for H.E. [i.e., His Excellency] to cut ribbon](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1938/01/01/new-general-post-office-bldg-ie-building-in-jerusalem-opened-june-17-1938-by-7-640.jpg "New general post office bldg. [i.e., building] in Jerusalem, opened June 17, 1938 by H.E. [i.e., His Excellency] Messenger boy, with scissors on tray, for H.E. [i.e., His Excellency] to cut ribbon")
![Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with W[estern] U[nion] for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1913/01/01/curtin-hines-western-union-messenger-36-fourteen-years-old-goes-to-school-works-640.jpg "Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with W[estern] U[nion] for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. \"I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now.\" Location: Houston, Texas.")
![Richard Pierce, 723 Walnut St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 2. 14 years of age. 9 months in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/richard-pierce-723-walnut-st-western-union-telegraph-co-messenger-no-2-14-years-640.jpg "Richard Pierce, 723 Walnut St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 2. 14 years of age. 9 months in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.")
![Harvey Buchanan, 608 E. Van Buren St. Postal Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 1908. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. $4 weekly. Visits houses of prostitution. Smokes. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/harvey-buchanan-608-e-van-buren-st-postal-telegraph-co-messenger-no-1908-14-640.jpg "Harvey Buchanan, 608 E. Van Buren St. Postal Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 1908. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. $4 weekly. Visits houses of prostitution. Smokes. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.")
![Harvey Buchanan, 608 E. Van Buren St. Postal Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 1908. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. $4 weekly. Visits houses of prostitution. Smokes. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/harvey-buchanan-608-e-van-buren-st-postal-telegraph-co-messenger-no-1908-14-1-640.jpg "Harvey Buchanan, 608 E. Van Buren St. Postal Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 1908. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. $4 weekly. Visits houses of prostitution. Smokes. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.")
![Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy #6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. Says he has been messenger for different companied [i.e., companies] for four years. Goes to the Reservation every day. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1913/01/01/percy-neville-eleven-year-old-messenger-boy-messenger-boy-6-for-mackay-telegraph-2-640.jpg "Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy #6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. Says he has been messenger for different companied [i.e., companies] for four years. Goes to the Reservation every day. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.")