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EVB2930360: Group of messenger boys, original caption: 'A typical group of messengers at Postal Telegraph Company's main office, 253 Broadway. During hot weather they wear these shirt waists. (A Suggestion for the other companies.)', Broadway near 40th St., New York City, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, July, 1910, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2930377: Gambling, original caption: '8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker game in the Den of the Terrible Nine, the waiting room for Western Union Messengers. They play for money. Some loose a whole month's wages in a day and then are afraid to go home.', Hartford, Connecticut, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, March, 1909, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2930467: View of the great railroad wreck, The most appalling railroad disaster on the Continent, a portion of the nine cars which were piled in a space 40 x 60 feet, near Chatsworth, Illinois, of the Niagara Excursion Train, at midnight, photograph by Harlan Holferty, August 10, 1887 / Bridgeman Images