This late 19th-century illustration shows supperless and homeless street boys sleeping out at night – a night scene in an alley. Many of the newsboys and street boys of New York have no homes. Driven out from the alleys and by-ways of the slums, and from the dens in tenement districts, where most of them were born, they sell papers, black shoes, beg or steal, as need be, and sleep wherever night overtakes them. Their faces are old from constant exposure as well as from the struggle for existence. Their thin clothes afford small protection against winter’s cold. It is not til one sees them at n
This late 19th-century illustration shows supperless and homeless street boys sleeping out at night – a night scene in an alley. Many of the newsboys and street boys of New York have no homes. Driven out from the alleys and by-ways of the slums, and from the dens in tenement districts, where most of them were born, they sell papers, black shoes, beg or steal, as need be, and sleep wherever night overtakes them. Their faces are old from constant exposure as well as from the struggle for existence. Their thin clothes afford small protection against winter’s cold. It is not til one sees them at night curled up on some doorway in old barrels and empty packing boxes lying in any way and every sheltered spot in dark alleys or deserted hallways that one begins to realize that there is no softer pillow for them.
Size: 5010px × 3606px
Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1890s, 19th, alley, beggars, boys, century, city, homeless, newsboys, night, paperboys, scene, sleep, slums, street, york
