Street urchins around the Fontana di Treve in Rome teach each other how to smoke cigarettes.
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Street urchins around the Fontana di Treve in Rome teach each other how to smoke cigarettes.

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Photograph

Chim (David Seymour)

Maker
Polish, 1911–1956

Street urchins around the Fontana di Treve in Rome teach each other how to smoke cigarettes.

Other kids look on enviously as one boy is initiated into the art of inhaling


From Europe's Children


ca. 1955
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.7 x 24.2 cm
Gift of Ben Shneiderman, 2007
Inscriptions verso(typed label): Europe's Children / Italy / Anti-TB / 114-32 [title]

verso red ink [crossed out]: International Children, Seymour

verso (pencil): File: Italy E3b / CE-13, 223 / 24 / I14-32

verso (red pencil): 210

verso (stamp): Please credit / David Seymour - Magnum / Magnum Photos Inc. / 55 West 45th Street, New York 19, N.Y.

verso (stamp): This print is not to be mounted or airbrushed

verso (stamp): #36 (pencil) A

verso (stamp): Magnum / Photo Library Print / New York / Log Ref. (pencil) 5340 / to be returned
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