Joseph Wench, newsboy, 315 W. 2nd St. 7 years of age. Selling papers 2 years Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per day. Mother and father separated. Lives with grandmother. This boy was found on King St. (marked), eating rotted orange which he picked up from the gutter. He was bare footed, shabbily clad and seemed under fed. When asked whether grandmother needed his earnings, he replied that she was comfortable and that he wanted money to go to moving pictures and buy candy. May, 1910 Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware [graphic] /
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
still image
Photographic prints. gmgpc
1910 May.
eng
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Street trades.
Hine no. 1530.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
Published in: "Images of America" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Boys.
Newspaper vendors.
Wages.
Hours of labor.
United States Wilmington.
National Child Labor Committee collection
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