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1911 John Sims NewsBoy - New Bedford

John Sims standing in the middle of Purchase street with no shoes and short pants.

In the top photograph, the store behind him at number 32 on the left in picture was Devoll's shoe store and the store behind him in the right of the picture was Henry Howland's Jewelry Store. The picture was taken on August 22, 1911.
The issue addressed here again is child labor in factories and on the street as vendors etc.
This boy is 7 years old.
If you click on the photo it will enlarge and you can see a lot of details.
This page has 2 photographs scroll down.

The Merchants' National Bank behind John Sims in the pic below is as it was
before the 1913 widening of Purchase Street.

click the photograph to see a larger version of the same.

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