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Bakery Boy: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 8:01am.
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Eleven-year-old bakery worker Glenn Dungey. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. April 1917. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Naked Bakery
Submitted by Bull City Boy on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 2:08pm.
Thank you, so much, Joe.
The pretty good late 50's early 60's TV police drama "Naked City" closed each episode with, "There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them."
I'm thinking that line could apply to Shorpy, except the "eight million" part and that's just a matter of time.
Glen Dungey: Bakery Boy
Submitted by joemanning on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 8:38am.
This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. A few months after I posted what little I had uncovered about this boy (Glen, not Glenn), I was contacted by a relative, and a very interesting and touching story emerged. I just posted it on my website at:
www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/glenndungey1.html
Bakery Boy: 1917
Submitted by Joe Manning on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 4:56pm.
This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I've done a lot of research on this boy, and found some interesting information. See: http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/glenndungey1.html
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