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Big Wheel in Waco: 1913

Waco, Texas. September 1913. "Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Waco, Texas. September 1913. "Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

 

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Re: Pipe?

Heh. That's nothing compared to some of the other Hine kids.

Pipe?

He's about 14 and he's smoking a pipe. He's been around the block.

15?

I would guess 12 or 13. Kids had to grow up quickly back then.

15?

No way he is 15, I bet he is 12

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