Source: Unknown. I have not been able to track down the photographer, although the signature indicates that the last name is “Waterfalls”
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*Cough* Buy me last pape, mister?
June 1910. Philadelphia, Pa.
Michael McNelis, 8 years old, a newsboy. This boy has just recovered from his second attack of pneumonia. Was found selling papers in a big rainstorm today.
Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Little Girl Holding a Goat
Looks like Mongolia from here, but not sure. Adorable, at any rate.
Russian Abacus Seller, 1860
Naples: Old Postcard
♬ ch’è notte e pare fosse matina,
li piscature de Margellina,
ca te cumbinano, friccicarella,
la tarantella, la tarantella. ♬
Child Labor
Part of a night shift in an Indiana glass factory, August 1908. Lewis W. Hines (1874-1940). This photograph was taken as part of an assignment for the National Child Labor Committee and the original belongs to the National Child Labor Committee Collection of the Library of Congress. This print (Collection of the Rakow Research Library 92651) was obtained from the Library of Congress.
You can see some intriguing statistics about this kind of work at the Corning Museum of Glass:
“In one glass factory, the average 1912 hourly wage for a male worker was 18 cents, and that of a female worker was 11 cents. They did not perform the same work. The lowest rate for a male was 15 cents and the highest rate for a female was still 11 cents. A 1917 statistic for the same factory shows that the average yearly wage for the lowest pay-rated male was $526, well above the U.S. poverty level at the time.”
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Children Singing in a Snow Cave
Picture by Hiroshi Hamaya. 1956.
Must Sell
To look at the country, I’d almost say times are as tough now as they were then. Economic terror is snapping at the heels of far too many of us, and our leaders seem interested in only one thing – fortifying their fiefdoms and filling their re-election war chests. I have a message for them:
“This is not what you were elected for. You were elected to serve the nation and improve the lives of your constituents. Do this, and you shall endure. Do it not, and every last one of you will be out of a job. America is angry. We will not see our Constitutional rights eroded – a storm is coming that even the lobbyists and attorneys of Monsanto and friends will not be able to withstand. The only thing that will protect you is doing the right thing, which is: stop thinking about yourselves, and do the job you were elected to do.”
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Los Angeles, the year I was born.
Innsbruck: Olympic Villages (1975)
Prior to and during the Winter Olympics of 1976, I lived in the old Olympic Village which had been constructed for the 1964 games, and which were later converted into apartments.
1964 Olympic Village, Innsbruck
Outside the window of my apartment, one could see the final preparations being placed on the new Olympic Village; some athletes had already begun to move in.
New Olympic Village in final stages of preparation
Flag of the USSR being displayed from a window
While my circumstances did not allow for visiting any of the events, we were able to visit a number of venues prior to the games, and it was possible to see the ski jumping event and the Olympic flames in the stadium from the train station.
The excitement in the city during the games was palpable. I felt this decades later as I volunteered during the winter Olympics of 2002 in Salt Lake City; these games are the event of a lifetime, and Innsbruck was fortunate to be able to host the games twice within 12 years.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Playing in the World Game 