A ragged young newsboy from the 1920s, dressed in a worn flat cap, an oversized patched jacket, rolled trousers and scuffed boots. He holds up a folded newspaper in one hand while gesturing with the other, as if calling out the day's headlines on a street corner. He stands on a cobblestone display base.

The threadbare, ill-fitting clothes and lean frame capture the hardship of a Depression-era street child hawking papers. Fabric patches, the cap, and the printed newspaper are crisply modeled for painting.

A poignant period figure for a 1920s or 1930s city-street diorama, a newsstand vignette, or an interwar urban model-railroad scene.