This photo by celebrated photographer Lewis Wickes Hine, posted by the Library of Congress, shows a group of newsboys who were selling evening papers in saloons and stores. It was taken “in an alley in back of the City Jail at 10 P.M” in February , 1910. Many of the Hine photographs lack identification of the subjects, but for this one, we are gifted with full identification. The newsboys are identified as, left to right: Dominick Mardilo, 28 1/2 Fulton Street; Roderick Towle, 44 Sheridan Ave.; William Towle, brother, 44 Sheridan Ave.; Louis Strasburg, 40 Mulberry Street; Max Erlich, 101 Dallius Street. Those identifications seem correct, except Mardilo should be Nardolillo. The boys are all posed facing the photographer, holding up the evening's newspapers – three of which are from New York City, not Albany; only the Times-Union is local. They are all wearing cloth coats and caps, and knickers. Their hands are ungloved.

This 1910 #LewisWickesHine photo of #Albany #newsboys has been popping up, stripped of all information. I took a deeper dive to learn about the lives of these boys who were out selling newspapers on the city streets at 10 o'clock at night.
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This photo by celebrated photographer Lewis Wickes Hine, posted by the Library of Congress, shows a group of newsboys who were selling evening papers in saloons and stores. It was taken “in an alley in back of the City Jail at 10 P.M” in February , 1910. Many of the Hine photographs lack identification of the subjects, but for this one, we are gifted with full identification. The newsboys are identified as, left to right: Dominick Mardilo, 28 1/2 Fulton Street; Roderick Towle, 44 Sheridan Ave.; William Towle, brother, 44 Sheridan Ave.; Louis Strasburg, 40 Mulberry Street; Max Erlich, 101 Dallius Street. Those identifications seem correct, except Mardilo should be Nardolillo. The boys are all posed facing the photographer, holding up the evening's newspapers – three of which are from New York City, not Albany; only the Times-Union is local. They are all wearing cloth coats and caps, and knickers. Their hands are ungloved.

This 1910 #LewisWickesHine photo of #Albany #newsboys has been popping up, stripped of all information. I took a deeper dive to learn about boys who were out selling newspapers on the city streets at 10 o'clock at night. Each one saw trouble with the law […]

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