Lewis Hine caption: 6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine, October 11, 1916. Lewis Hine caption: Family … [Read more...]
William Gaynor family, Fairfield, Vermont
John Vachon caption: Mr. and Mrs. William Gaynor, FSA (Farm Security Administration) dairy farmers, near Fairfield, Vermont, September 1941. Jack Delano caption: The Gaynor family at dinner on their farm. Fairfield, Vermont, September 1941. There are 67 photos of this … [Read more...]
Albert Lynch family, Dummerston, Vermont
There are nine photos of this family on the Library of Congress website. Many of the family members still reside in Vermont. They have copies of the photos, having discovered them only several years ago. One of the sons in the family still lives in the same farmhouse where he was … [Read more...]
Western Massachusetts Scenes
I drive to North Adams from Florence, Massachusetts at least once a week. I nearly always take Route 9, west to Windsor, make a right on Route 8A, then a left four miles later on Route 116. Several miles west on 116, I make a right on Stewart White Road, which crosses through the … [Read more...]
Michael Fernicola, Newark, New Jersey
Lewis Hine caption: Smallest boy is Mike Ferinco, 75 Monroe St., 10 years old. Sells until 8:30 P.M., Newark, N.J. Other is Duar Feriari, 60 Monroe St. Sells until after 9 P.M. Location: Newark, New Jersey. December 1909. The following appeared in New Jersey Review of … [Read more...]
Turner Falls, Massachusetts
Turners Falls is another little gem of a mill town. It's actually a village in the town of Montague. When I was taking pictures of the International Paper mill along the canal, I was told to leave by a security guard. I convinced him to give me five more minutes. He asked why I … [Read more...]
Much More Than Meets The Ear (2007)
Knowing my penchant for hyperbole, my best friend is fond of saying, "I've told you a million times not to exaggerate." Well, here I go again. Andre Previn may be the greatest all-around musician since the advent of recorded music. Born in Berlin in 1929, he escaped Nazi … [Read more...]
Mill In Ware, Massachusetts
There are several mill outlet stores in Ware, and one day while my wife was shopping, I took a walk around with my camera. This is what I discovered. I was back again five years later, and I couldn't resist taking a few more photos while my wife was shopping. The … [Read more...]
Joe Beafore, Fairmont, West Virginia
Lewis Hine caption: Monongah Glass Co., Fairmont, W. Va. Jo Before a glass wks boy going home, 5 P.M. He says he is 12 years old, and has been at it one year: is a "ketchin-up-boy" $.70 a day: says glass business is all right. Asked if he was going to be a glassblower when he … [Read more...]
Haydenville, Massachusetts
Haydenville is a tiny village along the Mill River, in the town of Williamsburg, just northwest of Northampton, Massachusetts. In the mid-1800s, many factories were built here, and reservoirs were placed upstream to store water sufficient to power the mills in the summer. In … [Read more...]
Northampton State Hospital, Northampton, Massachusetts
The Northampton State Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts, was considered almost a utopian solution to mental health treatment in the middle of the 19th century. In the 1980s, with the quality of care declining rapidly, and the movement to mainstream mentally ill persons into … [Read more...]
Bellows Falls, Vermont
The village of Bellows Falls is part of the town of Rockingham. It's bordered on the east by a canal, then the railroad tracks, then the Connecticut River, and finally a high mountain. The trains go through a small tunnel right under the main drag. The tiny downtown is as lovely … [Read more...]
Clarinda Morin, Winchendon, Massachusetts
Lewis Hine caption: Clerinda Norrin, said 11 years old and helps sister spin in Glenallen Mill. Winchendon, Mass. September 3, 1911. On my first trip to Winchendon, on September 24, 2008, I brought along my camera and a binder with all 40 of Hine's photos and captions. This … [Read more...]
Kirkpatrick Family, Lawton, Oklahoma
Lewis Hine caption: Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Oklahoma. Children go to Mineral Wells School #39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. "We pick a bale in four days." Dovey, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds a day (average) … [Read more...]
Fred Willingham, Belton, South Carolina
Lewis Hine caption: Extremes of age in the Belton Mfg. Co., S.C. The boy is Fred Willingham. Been working six months in the Bolton Mfg. Mill. Gets 50 cents. Sweeps. His next older brother has been doffing a year or two. Fred and his older sister had some confusion about the age, … [Read more...]
John and Rose Marie Garavaglia, Bush, Illinois
Arthur Rothstein caption: Coal miner and daughter. Bush, Illinois, Jan 1939. Arthur Rothstein was one of the Farm Security Administration photographers. He was born in New York in 1915, and had been a student of Roy Stryker at Columbia University in the early 1930s. Stryker … [Read more...]
Lonnie Cole, Birmingham, Alabama
Lewis Hine caption: "OUR BABY DOFFER" they called him. Donnie Cole. Has been doffing for some months. When asked his age, he hesitated, then said, "I'm Twelve." Another young boy said "He can't work unless he's twelve." Child Labor regulations were conspicuously posted in the … [Read more...]
Camille & Joseph Salvia, New York, NY
Lewis Hine caption: 143 Hudson St., ground floor. Mrs. Salvia; Joe, 10 years old; Josephine, 14 years old; Camille, 7 years old. Picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag of cracked nuts (on chair) had been standing open all day waiting for the children to get home from … [Read more...]
William Tobias, Brooklyn, New York
Lewis Hine caption: William Tobias 80 Grattan St., Brooklyn -12 yrs old. Boy was starting for the subway to sell papers on "trains until 6 A.M. "Cause termorrer dey haint no school and I kin sleep all day and sell again at night." "All de barkeepers is me customers." Asked him … [Read more...]
The Purdie Family, Matoaca, Virginia
Lewis Hine caption: Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va., for two years. His brother, next to him, helps in the mill. The others in the photo are not working yet. The father is not at work now as work is slack. … [Read more...]
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