An elderly pushcart vendor reaches up to choose a melon for a customer, on a stop along his route in Bronzeville, a South Side neighborhood of Chicago, 1971. He sells fruits and vegetables from his mobile streetcart. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
Two young boys push wheelbarrows of wood that they are selling for kindling in the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1927. (Photo by Felix Koch/Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images)
A man stands by his pushcart on a Harlem street, selling oranges and tangerines, New York City, 1967. A liquor store, a butcher shop, and a fish and chips store can be seen across the street. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
African American female shopper Lois Robinson selects a raw chicken from an identified Asian female vendor at the Lexington Market food and grocery market, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images)
A girl tends to a community garden at Calumet and 38th Street, in the Bronzeville neighborhood, in Chicago's South Side, 1971. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)
