Mornings on Maple Street

a collection of articles, stories, photographs, the Lewis Hine Project, and much more by Joe Manning

Anthony Martina, Buffalo, New York

Lewis Hine caption: Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 11 years old last summer. Attends School #1. He and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping beans at 1 cents a pound. Left for the country in May, returned late in … [Read more...]

99 Years After Hine: Visiting Eastport

My research indicates that near the weekend of August 12-13, 1911, Lewis Hine traveled by train to Eastport, Maine, most likely from New York City. According to several local historians I talked to, he probably would have arrived at the railroad station on Washington Street. It … [Read more...]

Interview With Eric White

Soon after I began my research into the lives of the child laborers photographed in Winchendon by Lewis Hine, the late Catherine Joseph Drudi, of Winchendon, recommended that I contact Eric White, a member of the first generation of Whites that did not own the Spring Village … [Read more...]

Diners And Restaurants

Carm's, in Chester, Massachusetts, which closed in 2014, had been serving breakfast and lunch more than 50 years. It was a combination restaurant and gas station. You could fill up two ways. The incredibly beautiful old restaurant in Huntington had a glittering old-fashioned … [Read more...]

Henry Maul, Alton, Illinois

My caption: Frank Dwyer (boy in front row, left) was 11 years old, brother Joseph Dwyer (front row, third from left) was 14, and Henry Maul (short boy in middle, boy next to him has his hand on Henry’s head) was 14. Alton, Illinois, May 17, 1910. Photo by Lewis Hine. Lewis … [Read more...]

25 WORDS OR LESS

I think of these at the strangest times - at 3:00 in the morning, in the shower, on a long drive, or in the middle of a boring phone conversation. Perhaps they are words of wisdom; perhaps they mean nothing at all. At least, I keep them to 25 words or less. Rivers may run to … [Read more...]

LEWIS HINE PROJECT

In the fall of 2005, I was hired by author Elizabeth Winthrop to find the descendants of Addie Card, a 12-year-old cotton mill worker in Pownal, Vermont, who had been photographed by Lewis Hine in 1910, for the National Child Labor Committee. Hine, who died in 1940, was one of … [Read more...]

About Lewis Hine Project

“Paint us an angel with the floating violet robe and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us a Madonna turning her mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory, but do not impose on us any esthetic rules which shall banish from the reign of art those … [Read more...]

An Elopement

Last week Mr. James Tuttle and a Mrs. Chapman, living about seven miles north of Louisville, eloped. Mr. Tuttle was a married man and Mrs. Chapman a married woman, each having a family. They were close neighbors, and rumors of improper intimacy between the two have been going the … [Read more...]

Eloped With Tifton Girl

Miss Hattie Squires, a most beautiful and modest maiden of sixteen summers, living three miles east of Tifton, was married to Mr. Cecil E. Bower, a worthy young business man of our city, last Sunday afternoon at the Methodist Parsonage, Rev. E.M. Whiting officiating, and the … [Read more...]

Fight In Corkedale’s Row

That pack of two-legged live stock known as the McDermotts had a field day on Thursday. The fight commenced at 1 o'clock and continued until seven in the evening. It was the greatest female "scrap" ever known in Corkedale's row, a bunch of tenements at the Five Points. Men also … [Read more...]

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