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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.
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Lewis Hine's Power house mechanic working on steam pump (1920), an iconic depiction of industrial work and masculinity File:Lewis Hine Power house mechanic working on steam pump edit.jpg Edit 1 by Fir0002, cleaned, downsampled, slight sharpening/contrast. This is an iconic Lewis Hine photograph from 1920, created for the Works Progress ...
In effect, Hine's photographs became the face of the National Child Labor Committee, and are among the earliest examples of documentary photography in America. [10] Lewis Hine was an influential photo journalist in the years leading up to the First World War. It was during those years that the American economy was doing well, and the need for ...
TITLE: Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma. CALL NUMBER: LOT 7475, v. 2, no. 4593[P&P] Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
The Survey is one of the earliest and most thorough descriptions of urban conditions in the United States. Some seventy investigators, including Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Margaret Byington, John R. Commons, Edward T. Devine, Crystal Eastman, John A. Fitch, documentary photographer Lewis Hine, and artist Joseph Stella, began work
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