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The image depicts six young boys standing in front of a building. Most of the boys wear newsboy caps and hold stacks of newspapers. They are dressed in coats, long pants, and boots. The background shows a stone wall with windows and a sign that reads "Spitting on the floor forbidden by order of the Board of Health."
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The image depicts six young boys standing in front of a building. Most of the boys wear newsboy caps and hold stacks of newspapers. They are dressed in coats, long pants, and boots. The background shows a stone wall with windows and a sign that reads "Spitting on the floor forbidden by order of the Board of Health."

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

8:30 P.M. Group of newsboys selling at the depot, Hartford, Connecticut. Smallest boy 11 years old.

Lewis Hine

Date
March 1909
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 11.8 × 16.8 cm (4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 11.8 × 17.6 cm (4 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2018.206.13
Credit line
Gift of Fern M. Schad
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • gelatin silver print
  • Labor
  • Newspaper
  • Connecticut
  • Boy
  • labor
  • genre
Provenance

Fern Schad, New York; gift to NGA, 2018.

Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, center right in graphite perpendicular: 611; bottom right: 119

NGA object ID 213988. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.