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Record group: Record Group 102: Records of the Children's Bureau, 1908 - 2003 (National Archives Identifier: 431)Series: National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine, compiled ca. 1912 - ca. 1912, documenting the period 1908 - 1912 (National Archives Identifier: 523064)
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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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 ...
Flash light photo of John Sousa, his mother and some brothers and sisters. John is sitting. Crowded, dirty home. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, January 1912. Date: January 1912: Source: Lewis Hine: John Sousa and family, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1912, based on file from Library of Congress: Author
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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 ...