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Skeeter's Branch Newsies: 1910

Skeeter's Branch Newsies: 1910

11 A.M. Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis. View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.

He Looks 40

That middle kid looks closer to 40 than to 10. I guess hard living and squinting through smoke will do that for you.

Songstress Sade tells us:

"The secret of their fear and their suspicion
Standing there looking like an angel
In his brown shoes, his short suit
His white shirt and his cuffs a little frayed"

Also a book cover?

I think this image was also used as the book cover image for a book about how "teenager" came to be a cultural category. Alas, I forget the name of the book and the author...

History repeats itself

100 years later and we STILL haven't learned that smoking KILLS!
BTW - These kids don't even look like they're past 10 years old!

Could that be Papa Muzevich?

Gee, one of these kids could be my relatives. My Grandmother grew up on Franklin Avenue in St. Louis. And yes...the proclivity for smoking continues in the gene line...sigh.

Great site.

Wow!

These boys were cool, when this expression wouldn't have been used for anything else but temperature...

this image was used on the

this image was used on the album "Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone" by The Walkmen. just in case anyone finds this interesting...

great images btw!

md

[Yes, Shorpy finds this very interesting. Thanks! - Dave]

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