Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Tenement Homeworker: 1912

A little help here! 1913

Breaker Boys: 1911

Boy Sweeper: 1908

Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hun­dred years ago was like: How peo­ple looked and what they did for a liv­ing, back when not hav­ing a job usu­ally meant not eat­ing. We’re start­ing with a col­lec­tion of pho­tographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field sur­vey for the National Child Labor Com­mit­tee. One of his sub­jects, a young coal miner named Shorpy Hig­gin­botham, is the site’s namesake.

Shorpy | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

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