garbage

nice slice of life

Again, I am not going to argue child labor laws. certainly the use of children in industry is abhorrent. but so far, the pictures I have chosen to look at in this group seem not to present the case very well. Here for example is nothing more than kids scrounging the dump for metal and tin etc to be taken to centers that paid them for it. I can't tell you the hours me and my buddies in the 40s and 50s spent scowering the town dump for bottles that could be returned for money. Money that was ours to keep and spend as we wished. We brought our bb guns with us and shot at the rats and all in all had thoroughly enjoyable times.

Bob Spear who bought food for you?

Bob Spear Hey Jack, there's a little over 5,000 images on the LOC website. www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?sp=1&co=nclc&st=gallery The image below might be more along the lines of what you're looking for. www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ncl2004000031/PP/ I think if Lewis Hine wanted to only take pictures of destitute children exploited by industry he most likely could have. He also has a lot of portraits of adults in industry that don't show a hint of exploitation, and I think that's because he wanted to show the spirit these people had in spite of the bad working conditions, because he cared about them.

Well done. nice image.

November 8 - November 11, 1911 New York City Garbage Strike

No, the date on edge of photo is November 13, 1911.

Where can I find out more information about the garbage strike and the "white wings"?

Other Bain/LOC photos of the 1911 New York City garbage strike:

The New York City garbage strike was put down by a massive hiring of strikebreakers, but outbursts of resistance continued until the end of November, as documented by stories in The New York Times. Cleanup efforts dragged on into December. "Strikers Plead to be Taken Back" New York Times story, November 21, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E3DC1231E2...

Looks like the eastern end of Campbell, up the hill off Elizabeth St, opposite where the police firing range was in the 1970s, perhaps? I worked on Campbell St but west of the railway near corner of Castlereagh St. (DMR) in the 1960s-80s.

Bankstown Babyboomer Thanks for the info; it's hard to picture this street without all the rubbish! AB