John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays. (Lives at 215 W. Michigan St.) (LOC)

Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.

John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays. (Lives at 215 W. Michigan St.)

1908 August.

1 photographic print.

Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Street trades.
Hine no. 0118.
Another copy of this print, titled "Self-portrait with newsboy," is at the Getty Museum, www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=68401
Photo shows a young newsboy standing at a busy street corner. The shadow of the photographer and his camera are in the foreground.

Subjects:
Boys.
Newspaper vendors.
Hours of labor.
Wages.
Shadows.
Photographers.
Cameras.
United States--Indiana--Indianapolis.

Format: Photographic prints.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Part Of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 2004667950

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.03225
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b01097

Call Number: LOT 7480, v. 1, no. 0118

Comments and faves

  1. Blinking Charlie, Flyvapnet, suzy dickie, pinkyhonor, and 227 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Jim Rees (17 months ago | reply)

    I wish we still had newsboys, streetcorner mailboxes, and hat stores.

  3. This photo was invited and added to the The Distance Between Stars group.

  4. Diana Michaels (17 months ago | reply)

    I think this photo is really good. The shadow.

  5. pierofix (17 months ago | reply)

    This is so cool! :)

  6. eric; (17 months ago | reply)

    I think the shadow is the most amazing part of the photo!

  7. Cemal karademir (17 months ago | reply)

    child looked like fhotoshop brush:D on the other hand everybody dressed so elegant...

  8. platinum99in (17 months ago | reply)

    Superblyyy Classic...

  9. Xanda O'Peagrim (17 months ago | reply)

    Great photo. The photographer's shadow really adds something wonderful to it, becoming an interesting focal-point rather than a distraction. I wonder if the photographer intended that, or whether it was just an unavoidable effect of the sun being so low in the sky behind him.

  10. BlueisCoool (17 months ago | reply)

    A classic capture - wonderful!

  11. Its Absolutely Jenny (17 months ago | reply)

    Nice focus, wonderful capture, I love it (;

  12. trialsanderrors (17 months ago | reply)

    The only actual picture of Lewis Hine?


    www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96519882/

  13. This photo was invited and added to the Street! group.

  14. ksrfoto (14 months ago | reply)

    Ah yes, Lewis Hine, a legend and idol in my eyes.

  15. This photo was invited and added to the On Time and Loved Ones group.

  16. G Luff (11 months ago | reply)

    Excellent image. wow

  17. portisson (8 months ago | reply)

    A slice of life from a bygone age.

  18. This photo was invited and added to the More Than Portraits group.

  19. Michael Kenan (3 months ago | reply)

    The interest of this scene is so much more with the photographers shadow in cluded in the foreground. I'm sure he looked at the picture and thought "this would have been good if I watched my shadows!" Love this.

  20. J Tys (3 months ago | reply)

    The shadow of the camera man makes this photo work for me .

  21. The Library of Congress (3 months ago | reply)

    trialsanderrors: The George Eastman has a wonderful photo of Hine as a child in the Flickr Commons. -- Helena (LOC)

  22. trialsanderrors (3 months ago | reply)

    Helena – Thank you! Wow, what a contrast to the pictures he took for the NCLC. Btw, there is also a link to a portrait of him as an adult in the first comment:

    www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2/m1978105900 46_ful.html#...

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