Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

1. Lewis Hine (1874-1940) COM 241 Photography I

2. Lewis Hine • Born in Wisconsin • Studied education and sociology at New York University and Columbia University • Saw photos as a instrument for social reform

3. Went to work for National Child Labor Committee in 1908 • Traveled around country documenting child labor practices over next 10 years

4. Often had to use a guise to gain entrance to factories • Posed as fire inspector, post card vendor, and Bible salesman, insurance salesman, industrial photographer

5. Used buttons on his jacket to measure child’s height • Estimate of age • Photos credited for passage of child labor laws by Congress • restrictions placed on the employment of children aged under 14 in factories and shops.

6. Climbing into America, Ellis Island, New York, 1905. / Lewis Hine

7. Lewis Hine Group of Italians at Ellis Island New York, c. 1905

8. Young Russian Jewess, Ellis Island New York, 1905. / Louis Hine

9. Lewis Hine Playground in Mill Village 1909

10. Lewis Hine Handicapped - Crippled Steelworker Pittsburgh, c. 1908-1909

11. 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."

12. Myrtle Bagwell, one of the youngest spinners in Spartan Mills, Spartanburg, S.C., standing on porch steps. photographer. / Lewis Hine, 1912 May.

13. Here Hine photographed “breaker boys,” whose job was to separate coal from slate, in South Pittston, Pa. Hine’s pictures swayed the public, and Congress enacted laws banning child labor.

14. Breaker boys. Smallest is Angelo Ross. Pittston, Pa.

15. Breaker boys, Hughestown Borough Pa. Coal Co. One of these is James Leonard, another is Stanley Rasmus. Pittston, Pa.

16. View of the Ewen Breaker of the Pa. Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrated the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. A kind of slave-driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience. S. Pittston, Pa.

17. A young driver in the Brown mine. Has been driving one year. Works 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Brown W. Va

18. A group of newsies selling on Capitol steps. Tony, age 8, Dan, 9, Joseph, 10, and John, age 11. Washington, D.C.

19. A small newsie downtown on a Saturday afternoon. St. Louis, Mo.

20. 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.

21. A boy making melon baskets in a basket factory. Evansville, Ind.

22. 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.

23. A Bowery bootblack in New York.

24. Bowling Alley boys. Many of them work setting pins until past midnight. New Haven, Conn.

25. 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.

26. Norris Luvitt. Been picking 3 years in berry fields near Baltimore.

27. Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory. All but the very smallest babies work. Began work at 3:30 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

28. A Jewish family and neighbors working until late at night sewing garters. This happens several nights a week when there is plenty of work. The youngest work until 9 p.m. The others until 11 p.m. or later. On the left is Mary, age 7, and 10 year old Sam, and next to the mother is a 12 year old boy. On the right are Sarah, age 7, next is her 11 year old sister, 13 year old brother. Father is out of work and also helps make garters. New York City.

29. A.D.T. messenger boys. They all smoke. Birmingham, Ala.

30. At 5 p.m., boys going home from Monougal Glass Works. One boy remarked, "De place is lousey wid kids." Fairmont, W. Va.

31. Fish cutters at a Canning Co in Maine. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. The 7 year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger but helps his brother regularly. Ralph, on the left, displays his knife and also a badly cut finger. They and many youngsters said they were always cutting themselves. Some of the others say they earn a $1 when they work all day. At times they start at 7 a.m. and work all day until midnight.

32. Jo Bodeon, a back-roper in the mule room at Chace Cotton Mill. Burlington, Vt.

33. 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.

34. Boys in the packing room at the Brown Mfg. Co. Evansville, Ind.

35. The overseer said apologetically, "She just happened in." She was working steadily. The mills seem full of youngsters who "just happened in" or "are helping sister." Newberry, S.C

36. A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, N.C.

37. Girl worker in Carolina cotton mill, 1908. / Lewis Hine

38. One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mill. She was 51 inches high. Has been in the mill one year. Sometimes works at night. Runs 4 sides - 48 cents a day. When asked how old she was, she hesitated, then said, "I don't remember," then added confidentially, "I'm not old enough to work, but do just the same." Out of 50 employees, there were ten children about her size. Whitnel, N.C.

39. A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River, Mass. Mid

40. Willie, a Polish boy, taking his noon rest in a doffer box at the Quidwick Co. Mill. Anthony, R.I

41. Spinner at Frame, North Carolina. Lewis W. Hine, 1908.