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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs that were taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression, which captured the result of young children working in harsh conditions, played a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
Famed photographer Lewis Hine is best known for his documentation of child labor and photographs of the Empire State Building. His photos of child workers helped expose the hazardous conditions ...
Lewis Hine's shadow appears in his portrait of newsboy John Howell, working the street corner in Indianapolis in 1908. In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a teacher and professional photographer trained in sociology, who advocated photography as an educational medium, to document child labor in American industry. Over ...
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer. NOTES: Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4593. SUBJECTS: United States--Oklahoma--Potawotamie County. FORMAT: Photographic prints. PART OF: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
English: Child labor in the United States, 1909 Courtesy: Preus museum; Library of Congress; National Child Labor Committee Collection. Notes with the photograph Lewis Wickes Two of the helpers in the Tifton Cotton Mill, Tifton, Ga.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer. ... 20th century child labor in New Jersey, USA. Items portrayed in this file depicts. inception. 28 September 1910 ...
All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are, Coleman Miller, been working one year, can not write his name, said 12 years old but doesn't appear to be. Zamie Scott, one year working. Tupelo, Miss., 05/16/1911. Photo by Lewis Hine.
A 1908 photo of child laborers in a glass factory in Indiana, United States, taken by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee, which formed after the 1900 census revealed that about 1 in 6 children between the ages of five and ten were gainfully employed.