Bringing the News
By Joe Grimm
Published 2007
Size: 6 x 9, Pages: 34
Subjects: Regional Studies: Detroit
Paper - 9780975897911
Price: $9.95L
Description
Century-old postcards celebrate newsies in photographs and artwork, in groups or singly, black and white or color. The newsboys -- and girls, as well as a few adults -- are always portrayed in hard-knock ways. Feet and calves are sometimes bare. Patches cling to elbows and knees. They cover their heads with stocking caps or the floppy hats we still know as "newsboys."
If there is inside you a scrappy, survive-by-your-wits newsie, you'll enjoy this collection of cards and carriers bringing news in old-fashioned ways. (Twenty-five images.)
Author(s)
Joe Grimm is recruiting and development editor at the Detroit Free Press. He is editor of Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and author of Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It (Wayne State University Press, 1987).