Two items in our Peter J. Eckel Newsboy collection are featured in a just-released New York Times interactive –http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/02/theater/20120302-newsboys.html?ref=theater
“Newsboys Still Standing Firm” (article in NY Herald, July 30, 1899) [Box 8d]
Newsboy’s Prayer” (in street argot) [Box 10]
Finding aid for the entire collection is available at
http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/Eckel2_updated_05082009.pdf
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