"Mary Christmas, nearly 4 years old. Picks cranberries sometimes. She is now picking up berries spilled at the barrels by Grandfather. Grandpa says, 'I make her pick sometimes, yes.' Location: Falmouth - Week's Bog, Massachusetts."

1911. Attributed to photographer Lewis Hine based on provenance. 

 

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When Halloween arrives, the street urchins don't mess around.

[real photo postcard, found on eBay]

 

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From the photographer's notes: Six-year-old Junior Johnson, of 14080 Northlawn in Detroit, pours water on the head of his girlfriend, 3-year-old Sally Salsinger. Photograph taken by Detroit News staff photographer "Brooks" on July 2, 1934.

 

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Nearly all of these urchins were discovered in the photography archives of the Library of Congress (and available without copyright restrictions online). Otherwise, urchin photos will be credited to the appropriate photographer with a link to its source (unless they come from my own collection of photographs from unknown photographers). If there is ever a copyright concern, do not hesitate to contact me.

Arthur Rothstein, Children playing near latrines. Saint Louis, Missouri (1936).

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Nearly all of these urchins were discovered in the photography archives of the Library of Congress (and available without copyright restrictions online). Otherwise, urchin photos will be credited to the appropriate photographer with a link to its source (unless they come from my own collection of photographs from unknown photographers). If there is ever a copyright concern, do not hesitate to contact me.

Hell yes.

 

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Via The Wiltshire Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland

 

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Group shot of children made orphans after the "Cherry Mine Disaster, where 400 men were entombed, November 13, 1909." A number of child laborers (boys as young as 11) also lost their lives in the Cherry Mine Disaster. 

 

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Nearly all of these urchins were discovered in the photography archives of the Library of Congress (and available without copyright restrictions online). Otherwise, urchin photos will be credited to the appropriate photographer with a link to its source (unless they come from my own collection of photographs from unknown photographers). If there is ever a copyright concern, do not hesitate to contact me.

A few years ago here in the big, flat city I tried to take the kids sledding in hilly Elmwood Cemetery but the security guard pulled up behind us and gave me the stinkeye so I chickened out. Next time I'm bringing a copy of this picture. 

Photo from the Burton Historical Collection at the University of Michigan, via The Night Train.

   

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I like how he didn't even change out of his street urchin clothes to win that pony-riding ribbon. This kid definitely deserves a Horatio Alger-style book about his rise from common bootblack to famous Pony Express rider who helped Wild Bill and Calamity Jane out of a scrape or two.
 

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Nearly all of these urchins were discovered in the photography archives of the Library of Congress (and available without copyright restrictions online). Otherwise, urchin photos will be credited to the appropriate photographer with a link to its source (unless they come from my own collection of photographs from unknown photographers). If there is ever a copyright concern, do not hesitate to contact me.