todaysdocument: Photograph of 5 year old Willie (William Frederick Tear, 490 Louisiana Ave.) one of Washington’s youngest news-boys. He is a kind of free-lance, helps other boys out, and roams around the city on his little velocipede, with all the recklessness of extreme youth. Gets lost occasionally. He was so immature that he couldn’t talk plain, and yet he was pretty keen about striking people for nickels., 04/16/1912 Lewis Hine, Photographer.  From the records of the Congressional Committee on the District of Columbia
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Photograph of 5 year old Willie (William Frederick Tear, 490 Louisiana Ave.) one of Washington’s youngest news-boys. He is a kind of free-lance, helps other boys out, and roams around the city on his little velocipede, with all the recklessness of extreme youth. Gets lost occasionally. He was so immature that he couldn’t talk plain, and yet he was pretty keen about striking people for nickels., 04/16/1912

Lewis Hine, Photographer.  From the records of the Congressional Committee on the District of Columbia

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    beautifullymessed: “with all the recklessness of extreme youth” :)
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    I wish I was this badass kid
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    “so immature that he couldn’t talk plain” :3
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