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Photo, Print, Drawing Two 7-Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee. Two 7 Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee

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Title

  • Two 7-Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee.

Other Title

  • Two 7 Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee

Summary

  • This photograph, taken by an unknown photographer in Nashville, Tennessee, in November 1910, shows two seven-year old newspaper boys. The photograph is from the collection of the Children's Bureau, a government office established in 1912 to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Enactment of the law was the culmination of a campaign begun in 1903 by two early social reformers, Lillian Wald of New York's Henry Street Settlement House, and Florence Kelly of the National Consumer's League. The first Chief of the Children's Bureau was Julia C. Lathrop (1858-1932), a pioneering social worker active in Hull House, an organization established to provide services to newly-arrived immigrants in Chicago.

Names

  • Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Department of Commerce and Labor, Children's Bureau, 1910-11-13.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Tennessee--Nashville
  • -  1910
  • -  Child labor
  • -  Paperboys
  • -  Street scenes

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph (black and white).
  • -  Original resource at: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669751

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Chicago citation style:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, Photographer. Two 7-Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee. United States of America Tennessee Nashville, 1910. Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce and Labor, Children's Bureau, -11-13. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669751/.

APA citation style:

Hine, L. W. (1910) Two 7-Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee. United States of America Tennessee Nashville, 1910. Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce and Labor, Children's Bureau, -11-13. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669751/.

MLA citation style:

Hine, Lewis Wickes, Photographer. Two 7-Year Old Newsies, Profane and Smart, Selling Sunday, Nashville, Tennessee. Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce and Labor, Children's Bureau, -11-13. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669751/>.