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Apr 10, 2023 · Beginning in the 1840s, young boys called "newsies" sold newspapers in major cities across the U.S. in order to make a living or support their struggling families — and as these photos show, the job wasn't always easy.
- Kaleena Fraga
Aug 16, 2021 · With the rise of the daily newspapers in the 1880s, more than half of all newspapers in the United States were sold by newsboys (and a few newsgirls). Newspapers that previously had appeared only in morning editions began to be offered in afternoon editions, too. The newsboys were sustained by this expanding market.
The Newsies were a group of street children who bought many newspapers every morning from the different publishing companies. To make a profit, each newspaper boy would have to sell them before the day
- Benjamin Grayson
A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were called newsdealers, and are not covered here.
The image of the newsboy, paper in hand, dashing in and out of traffic, became iconic. He was portrayed as quick-witted, street-smart and lively - ‘seen to embody the best characteristics of innumerable street-based apprentices across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’.
Paperboy. London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A paperboy is someone – often an older child or adolescent – who distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile.
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Mar 22, 2016 · Getty Images. I was very young when I got my first real job, about 8 years old. It was selling newspapers on a street corner in what was at the time a rough suburb for a young kid to alone.
