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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 ...
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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 ...
Printable version; Page information; ... Photographs. Accession number: 1987.1100.486. ... photograph by Lewis Hine (MET, 1987.1100.486) Items portrayed in this file
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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