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Scavenger Hunt: 1912
November 1912. "Children going through Whitman Street dump. Pawtucket, Rhode Island." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Too cold for children
It is obviously a very cold, windy day. I can't imagine that this little tiny girl, not even wearing a coat, would be out in this dump just to play. I wonder if their parents sent them to the dump to look for things to use, or sell.
Pawtucket dump
I would like to know more about this dump. I am a Pawtucket resident and am educating myself on some of Pawtucket's history. I would like to know what years this dump was here and its location. Present day Whitman Street?
Still today
I recently visited the Philippines and, sad to say, children still do this to survive.
Can't Possibly Be Happy
At last a Hine picture where people can't comment that the exploited child laborers look happy.
[They're not "child laborers." These pictures were shown in a child welfare photography exhibit advocating slum clearance. - Dave]
Pictorialist Dumping Ground
The background looks quite aesthetic yet the foreground is, well, a dump. The little girl's expression really makes this shot grab you, though.
70 Years Later
My little brother and I could be found doing exactly the same thing.
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