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Where some of the newsboy's money goes.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

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Where some of the newsboy's money goes. Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Movie posters and movie theaters.

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.

The height of the silent movie era (the 1910s-1920s) was a period of artistic innovation. Silent film stars had to use their faces to express every emotion — a skill that was lost on most actors when talkies replaced silent movies. Several silent stars including Wallace Beery, Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, Greta Garbo, and Janet Gaynor made a successful transition to talkies.

The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week. By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars. At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.

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01/01/1910
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Contributors

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Location

Wilmington (Del.)39.74583, -75.54667
Google Map of 39.74583333333334, -75.54666666666667
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.

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