Child Labor Photographs of Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. In 1906, Hine became the staff photographer of the Russell Sage Foundation, where he photographed life in the steel-making districts and the people of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the influential sociological study called the Pittsburg Survey. In 1908, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Over the next decade, he documented child labor in American industry. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.

Bottle Factory, Indianapolis, IN, 8/1908	Cigar Factory, Indianapolis, 8/1908	Indiana Glass Works, IN, 8/1908	Indiana Glass Works at midnight, IN, 8/1908	Noon hour at cannery, Indianapolis, 8/1908
Shoe-shining parlor, Indianapolis, 8/1908	Basket sellers, Cincinnati, OH, 8/22/1908	Selling radishes, Cincinnati, OH, 8/22/1908	Boy running trip-rope in mine, Welch, WV, 9/1908	Young driver in mine, 9/1908
Girls at weaving machines, Evansville, IN, 10/1908	Girls making melon baskets, Evansville, IN, 10/1908	Glass-blower and mold boy, Grafton, WV, 10/1908	Girls running warping machines, Gastonia, NC, 11/7/1908	Spinner glimpses the outside world, Lincolnton, NC, 11/11/1908
Young mill worker, Newberry, SC, 12/1908	Spinners and doffers, Lancaster, SC, 1/12/1908	Worker in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, SC, 12/3/1908	Mill spinner, Whitnel, NC, 12/22/1908	Little spinner, Augusta, GA, 1/15/1909
Mill workers, Macon, GA, 1/19/1909	Cotton mill workers, Tifton, GA, 1/22/1909	Boys shucking oysters, Apalachicola, FL, 1/25/1909	Girl working in box factory, Tampa, FL, 1/28/1909	9-year-old Newsgirl, Hartford, CT, 3/6/1909
Mill spinner, Anthony, RI, 4/16/1909	Mule-spinning room in cotton mill, Burlington, VT, 5/7/1909	Workers stringing beans, Baltimore, MD, 6/7/1909	Boy picking berries near Baltimore, Maryland, 6/8/1909	Doffers in Cherryville, Manufacturing Company, Cherryville, NC, 11/10/1909
Glass works, Millville, NJ, 11/21/1909	Boys working in bowling alley, Trenton, NJ, 12/20/1909	Garment workers, New York City, 1/26/1910	Girls hulling strawberries, Seaford, DE, 5/26/1910	Bowery Bootblack, New York City, 6/1910
Young doffer in mill, North Pownal, VT, 8/31/1910	Cotton mill spinners, Pell City, AL, 11/22/1910	Young coupling boy, near Jellico, TN, 12/1910	A raveler and a looper in hoosiery mill, London, TN, 12/10/1910	Breaker boys in coal mine, Pittston, PA, 1/10/1911
Coal mine workers, Pittston, PA, 1/16/1911	Young oyster shuckers, Pass Christian, MS, 2/24/1911	Young mill spinners, Yazoo City, MS, 5/9/1911	Mill workers, Water Valley, MS, 5/10/1911	Cotton mill spinning workers, Fries, VA, 5/20/1911
Cleaning Boys, Roanoke, VA, 5/24/1911	Cigarette rollers, Danville, VA, 6/6/1911	Glass factory worker, 6/23/1911	Nut pickers, New York City, 12/6/1911	Jewish family making garters, New York City, 2/27/1912
Newsboy, Baltimore, MD, 4/10/1912	Messenger service boys, Washington, DC, 4/11/1912	Necktie demonstrator, Washington, DC, 4/13/1912	Newsboy, Washington, DC, 4/15/1912

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