1908-1917 Bicycle messengers Tykes on bikes. by Alex Q. Arbuckle November 1910 "George Christopher, Postal Tel. #7, 14 years old. Been at it over 3 years. Does not work nights. Location: Nashville, Tennessee." IMage: Library of Congress In 1908, the progressive National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a New York sociologist and photographer, to document the exploitative working conditions of child laborers in dozens of occupations, from mining and manufacturing to farming and newspaper selling. Hine crisscrossed the country over the course of a decade, sneaking around employers to photograph and interview children about their hours, compensation and general treatment. Among the many workers he captured were bicycle messengers in several southern cities. Most of the messengers worked for telegraph companies or drug stores and spendt exhaust...