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110 Years Ago

Lewis_Hine,_Newsgirl_and_boy_selling_around_saloon_entrances,_Bowery,_New_York,_1910 Newsgirl & Boy Selling around saloon entrances. Bowery. Location New York, New York. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, July 1910. Newsboy N

July 1910: A newsboy and newsgirl sell papers around saloon entrances in Bowery, Manhattan, New York City.

1910 in New York saw the first public radio broadcast – live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci from the Metropolitan Opera House, and the second ever NAACP meeting.

The photograph was taken by Lewis Wickes Hine.

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