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Records of the Past: Lewis Hine Child Labor Photographs

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Records of the Past: Lewis Hine Child Labor Photographs - Exhibitions - Margulies Collection

Lewis Hine 
Group of workers at Sagamore Mills #1. Some of these were boys we saw on Friday P.M., four on two floor, three on next floor, dodging about behind spinning frames as though trying to avoid being seen. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts, 1911
vintage gelatin silver print
5 x 7 inches
 

Selected Works

Lewis Hine Grande, Philomena, 218 Thompson Street, N.Y.C., making and finishing coats, earns about $1. a day. Jennie, age 13 and Edmond age 9 work steadly and do not get much chance for recreation. Taken by Hiram Myers, Photo, Publicity Dept., N.Y.C. Location: New York, New York (State), 1922

Lewis Hine
Grande, Philomena, 218 Thompson Street, N.Y.C., making and finishing coats, earns about $1. a day. Jennie, age 13 and Edmond age 9 work steadly and do not get much chance for recreation. Taken by Hiram Myers, Photo, Publicity Dept., N.Y.C. Location: New York, New York (State), 1922
4 ¾ x 6 ¾ 

Lewis Hine Noon Hour in an Indianapolis Cannery. Aug. 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana., 1908

Lewis Hine
Noon Hour in an Indianapolis Cannery. Aug. 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana., 1908
4 ½ x 5 ¾ 

Lewis Hine Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys say they have been in school some this year. Location: Clark County--Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky, 1916

Lewis Hine
Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys say they have been in school some this year. Location: Clark County--Winchester [vicinity], Kentucky, 1916
4 ¾ x 6 ¾ 

Lewis Hine This is the attendance at the Minto Valley School on December 6. Compare with photograph 4001 taken October 21 - 6 weeks after school opened with only six children attending. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / L.W. Hine., 1915

Lewis Hine
This is the attendance at the Minto Valley School on December 6. Compare with photograph 4001 taken October 21 - 6 weeks after school opened with only six children attending. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / L.W. Hine., 1915
8 x 10 

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