The Newsboy Club. Gathered to go to a stunt at Moving Picture Show where they were to sit on the stage. Taken at 7:30 P.M. Location: Paterson, New Jersey.

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.