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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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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
Photographs. Accession number: 1987.1100.486. Credit line: ... Icarus, Empire State Building - photograph by Lewis Hine (MET, 1987.1100.486) Items portrayed in this file
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 ...
Vintage photos show just a fraction of the dangers they faced on the job. Railroad work was one of the most dangerous jobs in the US. Workers building railroad tracks in mountainous areas faced ...
English: Hine, Lewis Wickes. Slovak gra..h- Elis Is-1905 Slavic Mother & Child, Ellis Island (George Eastman House) Portrait of three women and a baby. Just arrived to Ellis Island along with hundreds of other immigrants that day. In search of a better life. USA 1905.