The direct gazes of some of these children really affected me. Seeing children only a little older than my own, working hunched over in filthy conditions, is qu

The direct gazes of some of these children really affected me. Seeing children only a little older than my own, working hunched over in filthy conditions, is quite horrifying. How many lives were stunted early by this kind of labour? And toward the end of the article is a photo [1] of Shorpy Higginbotham, whose name was used for an interesting historical photos site [2]. There are three photos of Shorpy in existence [3], staring back at us from 100+ years ago, and a few details of his short life. [1] http://www.motherjones.com/files/15_01099v.jpg http://www.motherjones.com/files/15_01099v.jpg [2] http://www.shorpy.com http://www.shorpy.com [3] http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy http://www.shorpy.com/shorpy