Messenger Boys,Mobile,Alabama,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,October 1914

Title: Extremes meet. One of the youngest and one of the older messenger boys in Mobile. The small boy is Emmet Brewster, Postal messenger #3. 11 years old; been working there 7 months. Makes $10 to $15 a month. Finished the third grade in school. I saw him carrying messages late at night. See Alabama report. Location: Mobile, Alabama.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1914 October.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Street trades.
Hine no. 3797.
Subjects:
Boys.
Teenagers.
Postal service.
Messengers.
Telegraph industry.
Bicycles & tricycles.
United States--Alabama--Mobile.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004004100/PP/
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