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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.
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.)
Between 1908 and 1924, Lewis Hine, an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), took pictures of child laborers. In some photos, ...
Child labour in a coal mine, United States, c. 1912. Photograph by Lewis Hine. Different forms of child labour in Honduras, 1999. Concerns have often been raised over the buying public's moral complicity in purchasing products assembled or otherwise manufactured in developing countries with child labour.
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
Though the President refused to meet with the marchers, the incident brought the issue of child labor to the forefront of the public agenda. 1904 National Child Labor Committee: The National Child Labor Committee is formed to abolish all child labor. World-renowned photographer Lewis Hine produced much of his work for the organization. 1909
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