Group of newsboys at the Times Office, Hartford, Conn. The newsgirls mingle and jostle these boys in the office and in the yard. Location: Hartford, Connecticut.
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, newspaper publishers relied on newspaperboys (“newsies”) to distribute their newspapers on city streets. The newsboys purchased their papers and usually had to sell all of them to make a decent profit. In 1899, with a sudden rise in the cost of newspapers, a contingent of New York City newsies staged a strike against big-time publishers like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
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Date
01/01/1909
Contributors
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Location
West Hartford, 41.76204, -72.74204
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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