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- Western Union Telegraph Company Messenger, circa 1885 - In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, young boys (and sometimes girls) rushed messages to and from telegraph offices. These messengers -- some as young as ten -- worked long days speeding vital information to customers' family, friends, or business associates. This young lad, dressed in a Western Union jacket and apparently holding a notepad, probably spent some of his meager earnings to have this photograph made.
- circa 1885
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Western Union Telegraph Company Messenger, circa 1885
In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, young boys (and sometimes girls) rushed messages to and from telegraph offices. These messengers -- some as young as ten -- worked long days speeding vital information to customers' family, friends, or business associates. This young lad, dressed in a Western Union jacket and apparently holding a notepad, probably spent some of his meager earnings to have this photograph made.