This photo was used in a full page b/w bleed advertisement in either Forbes or Fortune Magazine, sometime in the late Sixties or early Seventies. The headline across the top in dropout type:

By diligence, a quick-witted young fellow can rise from rags to riches.

Below, centered and also in dropout type: Fortune or Forbes.

I loved it so much when I first saw it, I had a photostat made of it and mounted it on foamcore board. I have it still and it still swells my heart with pride in the best productive ethic and values to be found the world over.

Mesmo não vivendo a época, nem nunca visto antes essa fotografia, me causou melancolia. Por que será??

This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I have finally posted my story of this boy. He was quite a guy.
http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2014/11/26/george-okertich-page-one/

This little guy made a recent appearance (10/15/08) in the Loudoun Times-Mirror newspaper (Leesburg, Va) in an ad for itself celebrating more than 200 years of history. Included was a photo credit to Lewis Hine. If the paper gets around to posting the page on-line I'll link it here.

His shoes, and the sidewalk and the base of the streetlamp show clearly how physically dirty life was back then. Add to this probably once a week baths and it really was incredible.

To Joe Manning: Once you have it on hand, would you please forward me a copy:

daniellemathias@gmail.com

Boy, doesn't he look like trouble waiting to happen!

So this is what was considered "fat" back then. I look forward to learning about Fattie and his family.

This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I recently identified this little boy. I will be interviewing one of the descendants soon. I got the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to publish the photo and an article, and a family member recognized the boy.