Stltoday.com – Metro: A look back • St. Louis' hardscrabble newsboys played role in reforming child labor laws

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Newsies are smoking at Skeeter’s branch in St. Louis. Lewis Wicks Hine photographed children at work in May of 1910 in St. Louis. The photos were included in the records of the National Child Labor Committee, and are now in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. His photographs shined a light on the use of children in the labor force, and helped change existing