Lewis Hine

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Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images

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Here's another set of Lewis Hine's photos of mill workers - mostly of child laborers. The superintendent and one of the spinners, Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, NC. Others smaller still. Ten boys and girls this size and smaller out of a force of 40 employees, 1908 This little girl is so small she has to stand on a box to reach her machine. She is regularly employed as a knitter in Loudon Hosiery Mills, Loudon, Tennessee, 1910 Two of the helpers in the Tifton Cotton Mill at Tifton, Georgia…

Lewis Hine. Man on girders, Empire State Building, c.1931.

Lewis W. Hine. America at Work, a new book from Taschen, chronicles Lewis W. Hine's early 20th-century career photographing the problems and triumphs of labor.

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Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images

“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.” — Lewis Hine, 1908 In the early part of the 20th Century child labor in the United States was not at … Continue reading "Heartbreaking Photographs of Child Labour in the United States by Lewis Hine"

Photographs by Lewis Hine that shook up early 20th-Century labour laws among those sold at US auction.