Monday, December 12, 2011

The Family of Newsboy Morris Levine, as Discovered by Joe Manning

Joe Manning, who lives in western Massachusetts, is steadily documenting the children whom Lewis Hine photographed in his vivid and highly effective campaign against child labor.

He not only tracked newsboy Morris Levine's Burlington, Vermont, family -- he interviewed two of Levine's grown daughters. With his permission, here is a link to the research and interviews he did:


Thank you, Joe Manning!

From the Lewis Hine Photos

Morris Levine, 212 Park Street. 11 years old and sells papers every day--been selling five years. Makes 50 cents Sundays and 30 cents other days. Location: Burlington, Vermont

  • Title: Morris Levine, 212 Park Street. 11 years old and sells papers every day--been selling five years. Makes 50 cents Sundays and 30 cents other days. Location: Burlington, Vermont / Lewis W. Hine.
  • Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: 1916 December 17.
  • Medium: 1 photographic print.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-03979 (color digital file from b&w original print)
  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Call Number: LOT 7480, v. 3, no. 4631
  • Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
  • Notes:
    • Title from NCLC caption card.
    • In album: Street trades.
    • Hine no. 4631.