Lewis Hine

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Lewis Hine

• (1874 1940)

Wisconsin-born photographer, photojournalist,
and social reformer
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• Featuring the original photo captions
• by Lewis W. Hine
• http//www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabo
  r/index.html

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Faces of Lost Youth
Furman Owens, 12 years old. Can't read. Doesn't
know his A,B,C's. Said, "Yes I want to learn but
can't when I work all the time." Been in the
mills 4 years, 3 years in the Olympia Mill.
Columbia, S.C.
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• Adolescent girls from Bibb Mfg. Co. in Macon,
  Georgia.

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Doffer boys. Macon, Georgia.
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The Mills
A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill.
Fall River, Mass.
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A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she
was 11 years old. Been working over a year.
Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, N.C.
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Some boys and girls were so small they had to
climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken
threads and to put back the empty bobbins. Bibb
Mill No. 1. Macon, Ga.
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Newsies
A small newsie downtown on a Saturday afternoon.
St. Louis, Mo.
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A group of newsies selling on Capitol steps.
Tony, age 8, Dan, 9, Joseph, 10, and John, age
11. Washington, D.C.
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Michael McNelis, age 8, a newsboy with
photographer Hine. This boy has just recovered
from his second attack of pneumonia. Was found
selling papers in a big rain storm. Philadelphia,
Pa.
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Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. He
jumps on and off moving trolley cars at the risk
of his life. St. Louis, Mo.
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Miners
At the close of day. Waiting for the cage to go
up. The cage is entirely open on two sides and
not very well protected on the other two, and is
usually crowded like this. The small boy in front
is Jo Puma. S. Pittston, Pa.
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A young driver in the Brown mine. Has been
driving one year. Works 7 a.m. to 530 p.m.
daily. Brown W. Va.
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Breaker boys. Smallest is Angelo Ross. Pittston,
Pa.
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The Factory
View of the Scotland Mills, showing boys who work
in mill. Laurinburg, N.C.
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9 p.m. in an Indiana Glass Works.
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Some of the young knitters in London Hosiery
Mills. London, Tenn.
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Young cigar makers in Engelhardt Co. Three boys
looked under 14. Labor leaders told me in busy
times many small boys and girls were employed.
Youngsters all smoke.
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Boys in the packing room at the Brown Mfg. Co.
Evansville, Ind.
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Seafood Workers
Hiram Pulk, age 9, working in a canning company.
"I ain't very fast only about 5 boxes a day. They
pay about 5 cents a box," he said. Eastport, Me.
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Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory. All
but the very smallest babies work. Began work at
330 a.m. and expected to work until 5 p.m. The
little girl in the center was working. Her mother
said she is "a real help to me." Dunbar, La.
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Johnnie, a nine year old oyster shucker. Man with
pipe behind him is a padrone who has brought
these people from Baltimore for four years. He is
the boss of the shucking shed. Dunbar, La.
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Manuel the young shrimp picker, age 5, and a
mountain of child labor oyster shells behind him.
He worked last year. Understands not a word of
English. Biloxi, Miss.
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Cutting fish in a sardine cannery. Large sharp
knives are used with a cutting and sometimes
chopping motion. The slippery floors and benches
and careless bumping into each other increase the
liability of accidents. "The salt water gits into
the cuts and they ache," said one boy. Eastport,
Me.
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Fruit Pickers
A berry field on Rock Creek. Whites and blacks,
old and young, work here from 430 a.m. to sunset
some days. A long hot day. Rock Creek, Md.
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Camille Carmo, age 7, and Justine, age 9. The
older girl picks about 4 pails a day. Rochester,
Mass.
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Little Salesmen
A young candy seller in Boston, Mass.
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After 9 p.m., 7 year old Tommie Nooman
demonstrating the advantages of the Ideal Necktie
Form in a store window on Pennsylvania Ave. in
Washington, D.C. His father said, "He is the
youngest demonstrator in America. Has been doing
it for several years from San Francisco, to New
York. We stay a month or six weeks in a place. He
works at it off and on." Remarks from the
by-standers were not having the best effect on
Tommie.
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Joseph Severio, peanut vender, age 11 seen with
photographer Hine. Been pushing a cart 2 years.
Out after midnight on May 21, 1910. Ordinarily
works 6 hours per day. Works of his own volution.
All earnings go to his father. Wilmington, Del.
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Struggling Families
Mrs. Battaglia with Tessie, age 12, and Tony, age
7. Mrs. Battaglia works in a garment shop except
on Saturdays, when the children sew with her at
home. Get 2 or 3 cents a pair finishing men's
pants. Said they earn 1 to 1.50 on Saturday.
Father disabled and can earn very little. New
York City.
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Jacob Riis

• (1849 - 1914)
• Danish-American
• photographer, journalist,
• and social reformer

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isphoto.html
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Jacob RiisHow the Other Half Lives Studies
Among the Tenements of New York(Charles
Scribners Sons, 1890)

• Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world
  does not know how the other half lives.' That was
  true then. It did not know because it did not
  care. The half that was on top cared little for
  the struggles, and less for the fate, of those
  who were underneath, so long as it was able to
  hold them there and keep its own seat.
• from Riiss Introduction

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Mulberry Bend, New York
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Bandit's Roost
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Dens of Death
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A Seven-Cent Lodging House, Pell Street
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Mulberry Street Police Station, Waiting for the
Lodging to Open 1892
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One of four pedlars who slept in the cellar of 11
Ludlow Street
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Ready for Sabbath Eve in a Coal Cellar
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Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street
1889
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In Poverty Gap, an English Coal-Heaver's Home
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In a Sweat Shop
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It Costs a Dollar a Month to Sleep in These Sheds
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Women's Lodging Room in the West 47th Street
Station - 1892
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Playground in Poverty Gap
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Children Sleeping on Mulberry Street