Man, newsies sure could dress

If you like photos like this, you’d like Shorpy’s, a blog from folks who go back to the original plates for these images, take new scans, and clean them up (in a way that is historical in focus, not over processed). You can download high res scans, or buy prints from them. I appreciate that the blog tends to have some detail, and enough information to further research the subjects of the photo:

Here is their post of this exact photograph: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5067

And another shot of the same newsies, doing their best impression of “tough”: http://www.shorpy.com/node/175

This group of kids was called Skeeter’s Branch, based out of St. Louis.

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