Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: Newsboys Surviving

Newsboys
Surviving

Horse Power
for Transportation

Football Becomes
a Major Sport

American Indians
/ Native Americans

Christmas
Activities

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Selling newspapers was an occupation sometimes held by boys and men with handicaps that kept them from other jobs (DN-0002901, DN-0002899, DN-0000365). However, the work was strenuous, as suggested by the pose struck by a champion newsboy in 1904 with an armload of newspapers balanced on his hip (DN-0001815).

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