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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Group of dime messenger service boys.  The youngest boys are Eddie Tahory, 14 years old, said to be a recent comer.  From a questionable home.  Mother eloped with boader, two children with her.  They said they never knew when they were going to get home nights. Usually work one or more nights a week.  Have worked until after midnight.  They said that last Christmas their office had a nine year old boy running errands for them, and that he had made a great deal of money from tips.  They make $7 a week and more sometimes.  Said, "The office is not allowed to send us into the red light district, but we go when a call comes.  Not very often." Washington, D.C.</li></ul></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Lewis_Hine" class="extiw" title="w:en:Lewis Hine"><span title="American sociologist and photographer">Lewis Hine</span></a>
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11 April 1912<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1912-04-11T00:00:00Z/11</div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>