Lewis Hine

labor in the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social reform. Hine, along with his camera, saved children all throughout America by enabling the public to see the immorality of child labor. Hine’s photographs were, therefore, essential in changing child labor laws in the United States (Michael Herring).…

Lewis Hine was an integral contributor to social photography during the early-1900s with child labor and immigration growing radically after the Civil War ended (“Teaching with Documents”). These two subject pools, child laborers and immigrants, piqued Lewis Hine’s interest when he began his photography career. Prior to pursuing photography, Hine was a teacher in New York City with a degree in sociology from the University of Chicago and the Columbia School of Social Work in New York (Johnson).…

The Museum of Modern Art was offered his pictures and did not accept them, but the George Eastman House did. The Library of Congress holds over 5,000 Hine photographs, including examples of his child labor and Red Cross photographs, his work portraits, and his WPA and TVA images. Other large institutional collections include nearly ten thousand of Hine's photographs and negatives held at the George Eastman House and almost five thousand NCLC photographs at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of…

viewed them to be more convenient, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Therefore inciting the era of child labor in the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social reform. Hine, along with his camera, saved children all throughout America by enabling the public to see the immorality of child labor. Hine’s photographs were, therefore, essential in the changing of child labor…

child labor. The NCLC hired a photographer named Lewis Wickes Hine to take photographs of working children. Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874. He worked in a furniture factory until he obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago. Hine became a teacher in New York City and did some work as an amateur photographer until being hired full time by the NCLC. For many of his photographs Hine would have the children “lined up outside mills as evidence of who was working,…

we start to understand that a mother has to work before the sun rises pending till night in order to help provide for her family. Sadly, inhumane work hours were not only restricted to adults, but also adolescents. Furthermore, In reference to the Report of Parliamentary Committee on the Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children in Mills and Factories (1832), Elizabeth Bentley testified that her labour hours at the factory were (…from 5 in the morning till 9 at night…) (Document 7). Again, we…

Lewis Hine was a teacher. He began modestly by teaching natural study and geography. It was here that Hine found his passion for photography. Photos taken by Hine were used as tools to support the content he taught in his classes. From here, after leaving his job as a regular educator to do freelance photography, Hine grew to teach much more than two subjects, he taught all of the United States what the human side of industry was like so that they would be able to see the man behind the machine.…

Title: Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal CO. Photographer: Lewis Hine, 1874-1940 Date Published: 1911January This is one of the photographs in Lewis Hine’s National Child Labor Committee collection. In this photograph, there are many repetitions. The background is made by the same windows, and the same stairs and seats. All figures wear the same uniform, and most of them are sitting, back against the camera, except the two older figure standing and watching the…

Hine’s was a photojournalistic artist. He used photojournalism to tell his stories. Photojournalism is the art or practice of communication news through newspapers, magazines, and more. He used photojournalism while trying to get the message that child labor was negative across. Hine’s amazing work that was produced by his talent was the face of the National Child Labor Committee and what they stood for as a community. Lewis Hine’s work was able to get the NAtional Child Labor Committee’s point…

Do you know what Scat is or how to scat sing? Just look up Louis Armstrong, he created this masterpiece. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, he was born in the birthplace of jazz--New Orleans, Louisiana. He was in foster care throughout his teenage years. His father abandoned the family right after Louis was born, and his mother resulted to prostitution, so he was often left with his maternal grandmother. He began working in fifth grade where he developed a interest in music, this…