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This is where you will find many interesting historical newspaper articles from the 19th century. Many different subjects and updated daily! Enjoy!

1908 Widow & boy rolling cigarettes for money

Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 06:08 in children, new york, cigarettes, child labor

TITLE: Widow & boy rolling papers for cigarettes in a dirty N.Y. tenement. Location: New York. FEBRUARY 1908. This photo was taken by Lewis Wickes Hine. He was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social...