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Lewis W. Hine

Lewis Hine, Library of Congress CollectionCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1907
Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 7. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Visits houses of prostitution. Guides soldiers to segregated district. Smokes. Still at school and works from 8:30 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. Investigator, Edward F. Brown.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.
Hine grew up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As a young man he had to care for himself, and working at a furniture factory gave him first-hand knowledge of industrial workers' harsh reality. Eight years later he matriculated at the University of Chicago and met Professor Frank A. Manny, whom he followed to New York to teach at the Ethical Culture School and continue his studies at New York University. As a faculty member at the Ethical Culture School Hine was introduced to photography.

From 1904 until his death he documented a series of sites and conditions in the USA and Europe. In 1906 he became a photographer and field worker for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Undercover, disguised among other things as a Bible salesman or photographer for post-cards or industry, Hine went into American factories. His research methodology was based on photographic documentation and interviews.

Together with the NCLC he worked to place the working conditions of two million American children onto the political agenda. The NCLC later said that Hine's photographs were decisive in the 1938 passage of federal law governing child labor in the United States. In 1918 Hine left the NCLC for the Red Cross and their work in Europe. After a short period as an employee, he returned to the United States and began as an independent photographer.

One of Hine's last major projects was the series Men at Work, published as a book in 1932. It is a homage to the worker that built the country, and it documents such things as the construction of the Empire State Building. In 1940 Hine died abruptly after several years of poor income and few commissions. Even though interest in his work was increasing, it was not until after his death that Hine was raised to the stature of one of the great photographers in the history of the medium.
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A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 3/08. Witness, Sara R. Hine.  Location: Newberry, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 3/08. Witness, Sa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits

Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits

Hine, Lewis Wickes .Arbeidere portrettert under oppføringen av Empire State Building. New York. .NMFF.003710

Drivers and Trappers Going Home: Barnesville Mine. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia

Drivers and Trappers Going Home: Barnesville Mine. Location: Fairmont,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 190. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

A Group of Young Fellows Working in a Cannery, In Indianapolis, Aug. 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

A Group of Young Fellows Working in a Cannery, In Indianapolis, Aug. 1...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 86. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

A Basket Factory. Boys making grate bottoms. In summer, many more young boys and girls. Location: Evansville, Indiana

A Basket Factory. Boys making grate bottoms. In summer, many more youn...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 221. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Widow & boy rolling papers for cigarettes in a dirty N.Y. tenement. Location: New York, New York (State)

Widow & boy rolling papers for cigarettes in a dirty N.Y. tenement. Lo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. Hine no. 15-B. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Group of sweatshop workers in shop of M. Silverman. 30 Suffolk St., N.Y. Feb. 21, 1908. Location: New York, New York (State)

Group of sweatshop workers in shop of M. Silverman. 30 Suffolk St., N....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 27-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Going home from Loray Mill. Smallest boy on the right hand end, John Moore. 13 years old. Been in mill 6 years as sweeper, doffer and spinner. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Going home from Loray Mill. Smallest boy on the right hand end, John M...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 259. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Some of the larger spinners in Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Some of the larger spinners in Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Loca...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 456. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Mill School House (in middle) surrounded by mill houses. Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Small need here for large schoolhouse. Most of the children in mill. Location: Dillon, South Carolina

Mill School House (in middle) surrounded by mill houses. Maple Mill, D...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 388. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Closing hour Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. November 7, 1908. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Closing hour Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. November 7, 1908. Location: Ga...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 257. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girls at weaving machine; warpers. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girls at weaving machine; warpe...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 220. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C. Mother said she is very good hand at spinning. Been at it 3 years. Runs 4 and 5 sides, about 50 cents a day. Little sister Lettie helps. Mother said "she is learnin'." Looked 7 years old. Dec. 208. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Clinton, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 372. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Midnight 4, 11,08. Messenger Boys in heart of Tenderloin. Youngest - Badge No. 524. Herman Unslowitz, Said 15 yrs. old. Oldest Badge 605. From Western Union Telegraph Office, 172 Fifth Avenue. Location: New York, New York (State)

Midnight 4, 11,08. Messenger Boys in heart of Tenderloin. Youngest - B...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 39-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Carrie Blanchard. "Don't know how old I am. Mother can tell. She keeps track of these things. She begins to work in mill tomorrow. 'Speks I'll go to help." (Mother said she was 10 years old). Little sister not at work yet. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Carrie Blanchard. "Don't know how old I am. Mother can tell. She keeps...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 365. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Doffers in Trenton Mills, Gastonia, N.C. Others as small and some smaller. Little girls too. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Doffers in Trenton Mills, Gastonia, N.C. Others as small and some smal...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 288. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bottomley farm, near Baltimore, Md. They have worked here 3 years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. All work except the very smallest. She hangs around the fields. Begin work about 4 A.M. and sometimes works until sunset. (See #838.) Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bottomley farm, near Baltimore, Md....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 837. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

A few of the youngsters in the Manchester Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. I was not allowed to go inside. See photos 517 to 520. Location: Macon, Georgia

A few of the youngsters in the Manchester Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. I w...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 518. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Sign on Company store, Wheaton Glass Works, Millville, N.J. Location: Millville, New Jersey

Sign on Company store, Wheaton Glass Works, Millville, N.J. Location: ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 1013. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. National Child Labor Committee. No. 469. Smaller girl been in mill for 5 years. Works now in the mill. Jan. 1, 1909. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. National Child Labor Committee. No. 469...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 469. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Some of Newark's small newsboys. Afternoon. Location: Newark, New Jersey

Some of Newark's small newsboys. Afternoon. Location: Newark, New Jers...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1035. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

United Workers Boy's Club, New Haven, Conn. In the gymnasium. Location: New Haven, Connecticut

United Workers Boy's Club, New Haven, Conn. In the gymnasium. Location...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 615. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. These are not the youngest. Young girls too. Location: Sanford, Maine

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. These are not the younges...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 704. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

A Rarniriz Cigar Co., Tampa, Fla. Tampa, Fla. Location: Tampa, Florida

A Rarniriz Cigar Co., Tampa, Fla. Tampa, Fla. Location: Tampa, Florida

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 579. City and state recorded twice in the original caption. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee c... More

Catherine Celaberta, 766 [or 756?] S. Darian St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6 years old. Been picking this summer at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more. Sept. 27, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Catherine Celaberta, 766 [or 756?] S. Darian St., Philadelphia, Pennsy...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the shadow of City Hall, selling vegetables at 515 King St., Wilmington, Delaware. Investigator, Edward F. Brown.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

In the shadow of City Hall, selling vegetables at 515 King St., Wilmin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomas Panasares [i.e., Panasaros?], Thomas Panasaros (cousin). Arrange balls in pool room at 711 Market St. 12 and 14 years respectively. Go to school. Work for father and uncle, respectively, who owns pool room. Investigator found these two boys at work after midnight on Saturday, May 21. Investigator, Edward F. Brown.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Thomas Panasares [i.e., Panasaros?], Thomas Panasaros (cousin). Arrang...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day every day except Saturday. Investigator, Edward F. Brown.]  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910]

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newsboy smoking cigarets [sic] on 4th & Orange Sts. Investigator, Edward F. Brown Wilmington, Delaware.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

Newsboy smoking cigarets [sic] on 4th & Orange Sts. Investigator, Edwa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and now would "stay". Location: Vermont

Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. Girls in mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two of the "pin boys" working in Bowling Academy with 3 other small boys until 10 or 11 P.M. some nights. Burlington,. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Two of the "pin boys" working in Bowling Academy with 3 other small bo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1100. No text recorded after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... More

Bundle Boys at Nugent's, Washington And Broadway. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Bundle Boys at Nugent's, Washington And Broadway. Location: St. Louis,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1470. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Burley's Branch Office, 23rd St. near Olive. Wednesday May 4th, 1910. 3:30 P.M. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Burley's Branch Office, 23rd St. near Olive. Wednesday May 4th, 1910. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1366. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Messenger, Broadway near 40th St., N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Messenger, Broadway near 40th St., N.Y. Location: New York, New York (...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1676. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Kibbe's Candy Factory. Isaac Futterman, 15 years, 108 Sharon St. Jacob Futterman, 16 years, 108 Sharon St. William Cohan, 16 years, 102 Washburn St. Cocoanut Shavers at Kibbe's. The Futterman boys had been at work one year. Isaac earned $3.50; Jacob - $4.00. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts

Kibbe's Candy Factory. Isaac Futterman, 15 years, 108 Sharon St. Jacob...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1195. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. Berkley, Virginia  Location: Berkley, Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby doesn't work, - yet. The rest are steady workers. (See Hine report for data about past earnings of the mill.)  Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger children at home. The boys pick 18-20 pails a day. Location: Falmouth - Week's Bog, Massachusetts

Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger childre...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2575. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Little Nettie ?, a regular oyster-shucker in Alabama Canning Co. She speaks no English. Note the condition of her shoes, caused by standing on the rough shells so much, a common sight. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Little Nettie ?, a regular oyster-shucker in Alabama Canning Co. She s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1988. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about eight or nine: could not speak English except to tell us that he was a sweeper in the spinning room (two other boys confirmed this); watched him go in at noon and come out at 6 P.M. on Aug. 21, 1911. At the houses his mother gave his name as Jose Mello, ten years old. There was no certificate for this boy at the superintendent's office. Birth records ambiguous. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2293. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12:45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, 73 King St. Billie Welch, 178 Union St. Tim Carroll, 310 Salem St. Michael Devine, 64 South Broadway. Jacob Black, 15 Bradford Bl. Binnie Greenfield, 281 Park St. Andrew Pomeroy, 76 South Broadway. Louis Gross, 39 Myrtle St. Arthur Davois, 244 Salem St. Joseph Latham?, 165 Willow St. Salvatore Quatirtto, 48 Union St. Sam Gangi, 82 Pleasant Valley St.These two boys were about the youngest of the boys, others nearly as young. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to wo...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from label for Hine no. 2462. Hine no. 2466. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Some of the young boys who are rollers and bunch-breakers in Danville Cigarette Factory. The very smallest ones avoided the camera. One of them asked me if the camera told their ages. Location: Danville, Virginia

Some of the young boys who are rollers and bunch-breakers in Danville ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2196. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Joe Perry, Grinnell St. Said he was 10. August 22, 1911. 7:15 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Joe Perry, Grinnell St. Said he was 10. August 22, 1911. 7:15 A.M. Ric...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2282. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Newsboy asleep on stairs with papers, Jersey City, New Jersey

Newsboy asleep on stairs with papers, Jersey City, New Jersey

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits

Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits

Hine, Lewis Wickes.Workers at the weavingmachines in The Flint Cotton Mill. Fall River, USA 1912..The Flint Cotton Mill, Spinning room..NMFF.003476

James Boulware, doffer in Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, said 13 years, working off and on 3 years. Charlie Rhoades, 12 years old, one year working, 75 cents a day. Couldn't write his name. Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina

James Boulware, doffer in Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, said 13 years, w...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2950. State not recorded on caption card; based on captions for related photos. Credit line: National Child Labor... More

Group of mill boys going to church Sunday morning. Beaumont Mill Settlement, Spartanberg, S.C. All work. The front row left hand and Elish Putnam been working 3 or 4 years. Middle Bryson Hemmett working 3 months. Right hand George Powell, six months working. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Group of mill boys going to church Sunday morning. Beaumont Mill Settl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2991. City recorded at top of caption card as "Spartenberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collecti... More

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mother and Aaron, 13 yrs., and Elizabeth 12 yrs old, working on crochet slippers. The children work until 9 or 10:30 P.M. sometimes, and the mother later. Girl has so much trouble with eyes that she is very much behind in school. Mother has eye trouble, too. (See Report also.) Witness. F.A. Smith. Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Jo and Antone are standing apart from the school boys. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Jo and Antone are standing apart from the school boys. Location: New B...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2747. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report.  Location: West, Texas.

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of some of the youngest workers in the Merrimack Mills. Everyone has a steady job. See Hine report.  Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Group of some of the youngest workers in the Merrimack Mills. Everyone...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The fou...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3678. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Lab...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3966. Hine no. 3967. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

7-year old Rosie. Regular shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina

7-year old Rosie. Regular shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 3303. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Free Kindergarten (in Girard, Ala.) run by the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Ga. Has been closed over a year. The mill owners get a deal of free newspaper advertising about their wonderful Welfare Work, but it petered out this way. Location: Columbus, Georgia

Free Kindergarten (in Girard, Ala.) run by the Eagle and Phoenix Mills...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3439. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Group of children in the kindergarten school composed of the cotton mill people. Even during the play the mill is ever in the background. Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas

Group of children in the kindergarten school composed of the cotton mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3602. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Outline map of the United States - Public domain map

Outline map of the United States - Public domain map

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3780. No location or date recorded on caption card; date estimate based on captions for photographs with ... More

Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915.  Location: Wisconsin.

Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. ...

Picryl description: Public domain portrait of a child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Eight-year old Jack driving load of hay. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915.  Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack driving load of hay. See Hine Report, Rural Child ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Newsgirl about 11 years old, with a single paper making a begging and sight seeing trip through the business section. See California report.  Location: Los Angeles, California / Lewis W. Hine.

Newsgirl about 11 years old, with a single paper making a begging and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newsie. See California report.  Location: Los Angeles, California / Lewis W. Hine.

Newsie. See California report. Location: Los Angeles, California / Le...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915.  Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.  Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915.  Location: Colorado.

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing away the grain. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3990. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... More

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915.  Location: Sugar City, Colorado.

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen yea...

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Hanging around the saloon - 5 P.M.  Location: Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Hanging around the saloon - 5 P.M. Location: Chicopee Falls, Massachu...

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10-year old girl picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill.  Location: Cabool, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

10-year old girl picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. Location: Cab...

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Evelyn Casey, 129 Gaynore St., 14 years, 6 months - Irish. Went to work on 14th birthday cleaning harnesses in Borden Mills. Left because of no work and expects to learn weaving in Flint mill with a girl friend. At certificate office applying for certificate for second position.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Evelyn Casey, 129 Gaynore St., 14 years, 6 months - Irish. Went to wor...

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Hebbardsville School. Principal is new and said "Only a few absent." School opened September 5th.  Location: Henderson County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Hebbardsville School. Principal is new and said "Only a few absent." S...

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Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from "sun-up to sun-down" worming and suckering, and that they are as steady as a grown-up.  Location: Warren County--Albaton, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter ...

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General View of Spooling Room.  Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

General View of Spooling Room. Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusett...

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Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School but it has not opened on account of repairs. Lewis W. Hine. See 4398-9 and 4400.  Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School...

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A Sunday afternoon "pick-up" at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

A Sunday afternoon "pick-up" at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184....

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French - Albertine Angelhart, 35 Gangion St. - 14 years old January 2nd - left in 4th grade. Weaver in Flint Mill. Apply for certificate. Had been a weaver one month in one mill and two days in next but it was a stop motion loom which she didn't know how to operate.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

French - Albertine Angelhart, 35 Gangion St. - 14 years old January 2n...

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[Vocational class. Boring at a lathe. 15 years old.]  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Vocational class. Boring at a lathe. 15 years old.] Location: Fall R...

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Crossing the trestle - 4 P.M.  Location: Westfield, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Crossing the trestle - 4 P.M. Location: Westfield, Massachusetts / Le...

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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or 6. Lives in Bowling Green.  Location: Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Br...

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Newkirk children picking blackberries. Father, Hildred Newkirk. Willie, 15 years, Catherine, 13 years, Clarence, 10 years and Sam, 8 years. Will start school (Indian Field) soon. Mother said:"They haint got money fer books so they have to git a little from the berrin'." Some families nearby earn considerable money at this work. Teacher of Rabittown School said most of her absences have been due to picking berries.  Location: Clark Co., Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Newkirk children picking blackberries. Father, Hildred Newkirk. Willie...

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Accident case - Man with hand crushed by flywheel at Offset Litho Co. because his helper (a boy of 17) disobeyed instructions and pushed wrong lever. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

Accident case - Man with hand crushed by flywheel at Offset Litho Co. ...

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George Barbee, 13 years old worming. Lives near Bell School.  Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

George Barbee, 13 years old worming. Lives near Bell School. Location...

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James Donovan - Irish Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works. Said he was 17 years.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

James Donovan - Irish Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works. Said he was 17...

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Empty Canal St. playground 4 P.M. Will not open until July 5th.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Empty Canal St. playground 4 P.M. Will not open until July 5th. Locat...

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Woman's Union, Folk dancing. Working girls.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Woman's Union, Folk dancing. Working girls. Location: Fall River, Mas...

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"Just hanging around." See 4197.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

"Just hanging around." See 4197. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts ...

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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives a dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or 6. Lives in Bowling Green.  Location: Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Br...

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Walnut Grove School. Average attendance 20, out of an enrollment of 32. Absences chiefly due to berries. 51 in Census.  Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Walnut Grove School. Average attendance 20, out of an enrollment of 32...

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Recruiting station.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Recruiting station. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hi...

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James Cooney - Irish - 15 years. 26 Peck St., King Philip. Drop Wire boy. Belongs to Settlement House junior base-ball league.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

James Cooney - Irish - 15 years. 26 Peck St., King Philip. Drop Wire b...

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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.

Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day,...

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School #45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in fair condition. Opened September 4th--8 months term. Enrollment 22, average attendance 15; last year: enrollment 27, average attendance 15. The balance are picking cotton and also 5 more that have not enrolled at all. Pickers may be out 2 weeks more. Teacher expects 30 enrolled after picking is over.  Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

School #45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in f...

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Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Coma...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4581. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine

Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Loc...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4216. Hine no. 4219. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4399. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

King Philip Spinning Room. Spare hand on spinning frames. Alphonsine Berube, 831 Globe St. Age - 15 years. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

King Philip Spinning Room. Spare hand on spinning frames. Alphonsine B...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4259. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100--a large amount. Mostly negro workers this year. Location: Zion vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4458. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

[15-year old girl folding towels in Bonanno Laundry.]  Location: [Boston, Massachusetts] / Lewis W. Hine.

[15-year old girl folding towels in Bonanno Laundry.] Location: [Bost...

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Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician. See 4664.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician. See ...

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15-year old boy sorting cycas leaves, Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

15-year old boy sorting cycas leaves, Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-35...

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[Abe Singer, 14-year old helper at Wax Florists, 143 Tremont Street. He delivers bundles, tends the door, etc.]  Location: [Boston, Massachusetts] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Abe Singer, 14-year old helper at Wax Florists, 143 Tremont Street. H...

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