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Welcome to the Lewis Hine ProjectTM, an amazing journey through 100 years of American history. If this is your first visit, please see About Lewis Hine Project first (just click photo at left). Each photo below is a link.

Click Child Labor Stories for an index of all the stories I have posted so far; Addie Card: The Search for an Anemic Little Spinner for the story that inspired this project; Counting on Grace for information about the book inspired by Addie; Library of Congress to see all of Hine’s child labor photos; and Mystery Photos to see some of the unnamed children I am trying to identify.

Click Lonnie Cole, the Story and the Song to see and hear about the little boy called “Our Baby Doffer”; Catherine Young family to see their remarkable story; Children That Mattered: An essay about the Lewis Hine Project; Exhibits & Presentations to learn about exhibits of my work, and my upcoming presentations; and Lewis Hine, to see a brief biography of the great photographer.

Guillette Family, Winchendon, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dora Roberts in mill. Lives at 13 Woodlawn St., there are 13 in the family, five or six working. Apparently prosperous. In this group is also Corinne Cuillette. Location: Winchendon, … [Read more...]

Grayson Forsyth, Eastport, Maine

Lewis Hine caption: Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 … [Read more...]

James McCutcheon, Eastport, Maine

Lewis Hine caption: Fulsom McCutcheon, 11 years old, has been working at the covering machines in Eastport canning factory, also cutting some. In the background is a typical sardine factory. Location: Eastport, Maine, August 1911. When James Philson McCutcheon posed for Lewis … [Read more...]

Unidentified Newsboy, St. Louis, Missouri

Lewis Hine caption: Truants selling papers at Jefferson & Washington 11 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Smallest boy is Marvin Adams, 2637 Wahington Ave. Said he got his papers "off'n de other feller." Other boy is Owen McCormack, 2651 Washington Avenue. Location: St. Louis, … [Read more...]

Henry Smith, Winchendon, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis Pagnette. Also Henry Smith, Maple Street. Location: Winchendon, … [Read more...]

Elbert & Ruby Hollingsworth, Denison, Texas

Lewis Hine caption: Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother, and several brothers and … [Read more...]

History Of White Brothers Mills

All images provided by Eric White, unless otherwise noted. The following is a copy of a history of the White Brothers mills, written by the White family in 1942. Lewis Hine caption: Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling … [Read more...]

John Howell, Indianapolis, Indiana

Lewis Hine caption: John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays. (Lives at 215 W. Michigan St.) Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, August 1908. "In the evenings, he would go play pool, and me and my brother would go with him. He was a … [Read more...]

Mary & Dora Roberts, Winchendon, Massachusetts

Belton Cotton Mill

Selena Walls worked at the Belton Cotton Mill, in Belton, Texas, when she was as young as eight or nine years old; and she worked in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill (no photo available), in West, Texas, when she was as young as 12 years old. The following appeared in the … [Read more...]

Hugo Umhoefer, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Lewis Hine caption: Group of children, 7-9-11-13-14 years old, hoeing corn for father on farm near Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Joe Umhoefer, July 1915. Location: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. "My parents always stressed the importance of their children getting an education. They … [Read more...]

Napoleon Camire, Manchester, New Hampshire

Lewis Hine caption: Boys working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Smallest boy is Napoleon Cammery, 194 Merrimac St. Been in mill 1 year. Next boy is Jerry Moore, 352 Chestnut St. Martin Markey, 33 State St. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, May 1909. This is the third … [Read more...]

Selena Walls, West, Texas

Lewis Hine caption: Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Valley Cotton Mill, West, Texas. Their family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister fifteen years old. Selina could earn a dollar … [Read more...]

Anna & Alice Dugas, Winchendon, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Annie Dugas, spinner at machine on top floor of Glenallen Mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts, September 1911. "I knew that she had worked in a mill, but there was no face to it until now. It's hard to see an older person as a child, especially your … [Read more...]

Isabella Roy, Fall River, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' since I was 5 years old." Lives 44 Bowler St., Fall River. Sister Jeanette said 6 years old beginning to pick now. Also their cousin Anita (on right hand) 7 years old regular picker. Began … [Read more...]

Mildred Greenwood, Winchendon, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Comparison of Ages: Left end, Marion Deschere, just passed 13 years. Helps sister in mill "some." Next is Mildred Greenwood, "going on 14." Goes to school. Next is Mamie La Barge, 13 years, but said 14 years. Right end is Rosina Goyette, said 14, probably 12 … [Read more...]

Angelina Guinzali, Boston, Massachuetts

Lewis Hine caption: Angelina Guinzali (15 years old?) works for Madame Ball, dressmaker at 603 Boylston Street. Boston, Massachusetts, January 25, 1917. When Lewis Hine made this touching photograph of a lovely Italian-American girl in the first month of 1917, he and his … [Read more...]

Lumina & Elizabeth Desmarais, Winchendon, Massachusetts

Lewis Hine caption: Elizabeth Demaris [i.e., Demarais?], 13 years old. A spinner in the Spring Village Mill, Winchendon, Mass. Been working since May. Lumina Demaris, sister of Elizabeth, admitted 12 years old. Been a doffer in Spring Village Mill all summer, Father and sister … [Read more...]

Gus & Julius Hodges, Norfolk, Virginia

Lewis Hine caption: "Teaching the young idea How to Sell." Gus Hodges, age 11, instructing his brother Julius, age 5. I found Gus selling as late as 9:00 P.M., and he said that he had made over one dollar a day. Julius and another brother, 9 years old, had made 25 cents that day. … [Read more...]

Wilford Clark, Eastport, Maine

Lewis Hine caption: Wilfred Clark, 10 years old, 24 Key St., going home at noon, after cutting five boxes of fish during the morning. Incidentally, he cuts his fingers. See left fore-finger. Two other boys with him had fingers badly cut and healed up. Location: Eastport, Maine. … [Read more...]

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