newsboys

young workers

Employees early in careers

• adolescentsYouth approaching maturity
• schoolboysMale children in education
• orphansChildren whose parents died

street kids · urchins · juveniles · resourcefulness · independence · scrappiness · camaraderie · mischief · innocence lost · coming-of-age

child labor

Minors performing paid work

• street urchinsHomeless urban youth
• bootblacksProfessional shoe polishers
• Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen

tenements · industrial revolution · ragamuffins · waifs · chimney sweeps · working poor · Pulitzer · Hearst · labor movement · sweatshops

hawking

Sport using trained raptors

• street cornersJunctures of perpendicular roads
• paper routesNewspaper delivery territories
• extra editionUnscheduled newspaper printing

headlines · shouting · coins · tips · bundles · delivery · subscribers · morning edition · evening edition · circulation

headlines

Article titles in newspapers

• broadsheetsLarge-format newspapers
• tabloidsSensational gossip newspapers
• newsprintLow-grade printing paper

front page · journalism · press · editions · scoops · dailies · publishing · reporters · editors · printing press

Santa Fe

New Mexico's seat of government

• BroadwayManhattan theatrical district
• capsHeadwear or upper limits
• knickersLoose pants to knee

suspenders · satchels · period costume · nostalgia · Americana · iconic imagery

city streets

Paved routes through towns

• sidewalksPaved pedestrian pathways
• downtownCentral business district
• alleywaysNarrow urban passages

street corners · lampposts · storefronts · trolleys · crowds · bustle · pedestrians · intersections · newsstands · metropolitan

• boys in filmcoming-of-age, young hero, street kids, newsie, urchin
• New York historyEllis Island, Tammany Hall, Erie Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park
• Victorian childhoodstreet children, foundlings, urchins, waifs, destitute children
• blue-collar jobsfactory work, factory worker, factory workers, construction, farm hand
• Victorian LondonLondon, Thames, Big Ben, Westminster, East End
• British MediaBBC, Fleet Street, tabloids, broadsheets, The Guardian