Other Street Trades
Marie Costa, basket seller, in a Cincinnati market. 10 A.M. Saturday.
Cincinnati, OH. , 08/22/1908
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-42
"Radishes! Penny a bunch!" Boys and girls sell all day until 11 P.M.
Cincinnati, OH , 08/22/1908
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-45
Greel's Shoe-Shining Parlor. Said he was 15 years old. Works some nights
until 11 P.M. Indianapolis, Ind. , 08/1908
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-50
A candy seller dressed for his business. Boston, Mass. , 10/1909
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-941
After 9 P.M., 7 year old Tommie Nooman demonstrating the advantages
of the Ideal Necktie Form
in store window on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. His father said,
"He is the youngest demonstrator in America.
Has been doing it for several years from San Francisco, to New York.
We stay a month or six weeks in a place,
he works at it off and on." The remarks of appreciation from the by-standers
were not having the best effect on Tommie.
Washington, D.C. , 04/13/1911
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-2375
Joseph Severio, peanut vender, 11 years of age. Been pushing cart 2
years. Out after midnight on May 21, 1910.
Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Works of own volution. Don't smoke,
all earnings go to father. Wilmington, Del. , 05/1910
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-1501
Gum venders selling near the National Theatre. Eli Marks, 8 years old,
makes 25 [cents] a night.
Harvey, 11 years old, makes 50 [cents] a night. "When they see us they
chase us home at 8:30, but when we see they coming,
we slid the boxes in our pockets, until the cop gets past." Washington,
D.C. , 04/11/1912
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-2903
At center market. 11 year old celery vender. He sold until 11 P.M. and
was out again Sunday morning selling papers and gum.
Has been in this country only half a year. Washington D.C. , 04/13/1912
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-2928
Boy carrying hats. New York City. , 02/08/1912
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-2857
Boys picking over garbage on "the dumps." Boston, Mass., 10/1909
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-899
Boys of the dumps. South Boston. Fields now being filled in for a play
ground. Boston, Mass., 10/1909
NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-102-LH-947