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...]

Lewis Hine caption: Betsey Price, First year high school at her Club sewing. 4 H Club work, Marlinton, W. Va. Location: [Pocahontas County]--Marlinton, West Virginia / Photo Lewis W. Hine, October 7, 1921. "I don't know if that was why her picture was taken, but my mother was … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Austin Curtis and his pig project. He is a young colored boy living near the W. Va. Collegiate Institute, the State Colored Agri. College. Location: Charleston [vicinity], West Virginia, October 10, 1921. Lewis Hine caption: Alice Curtis and her … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: George Cox, 13 year old colored boy, has just joined the 4 H Club and is raising a pig. His father is a "renter" in this poor home near the W. Va. Collegiate Institute (Near Charleston) the State colored agricultural college. Mr. A.W. Curtis, Agri. Agent, is … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Oscar Revinsky(?) - Born Jan. 11, 1900, 15 years old - 99 Oak Grove Ave. A scavenger on Pine St. Dump. Case known to S.P.C.C. (record No. 4322) since 1910. In 1913 parents refused to let child be committed to Wrentham, Mass. In 1916 father came to office … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Eleven-year-old bakery worker Glenn Dungey. Ellis Report, L.W. Hine. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 1917. When I pick out a photograph to research, I never know what kind of a story I am going to uncover, and how it might differ from … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: A young oyster fisher [?] Others smaller employed in busy season. Apalachicola, Fla. Randsey Summerford says he starts out at 4 A.M. one day, is out all night in the little oyster boat and back next day some time. Gets a share of the proceeds. Said he was 16 … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Hard work and dangerous. This "river-boy" Lyman Frugia. Poles the heavy logs into the incline that takes them up to the mill. It is not only hard work, but he is exposed to all kinds of weather and is dangerous too. Said he is 14 years old, has worked here … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Luther Watson, of Corinth, KY, 14 years old, Dec. 30, 1906, right arm was cut off by a veneering saw in a box factory (in Cincinnati) on Nov. 14, 1907. He used a board to throp belt operating (saw as there) was no apparatus to do this. Now attending school. … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Harry McShane - 134 B'way [I,e, Broadway] -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt of a machine in Spring factory in May 1908. Had been working in … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: 7-year old Rosie. Regular oyster shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. (Showing process) Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina, February 1913. Lewis Hine caption: "Little … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Company, Biloxi, Mississippi, February 1911. The Barataria Canning Company was founded in 1885 by Jewish businessmen from New Orleans. … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning Factory. On right-hand end of photo is Lazro Boney, 12 years old, been working 4 years at this factory. Both he and his mother said he makes $1.75 a day when shrimp are large and plentiful. … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Alma Crosien, three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cora Croslen, of Baltimore. Both work in the Barataria Canning Company. The mother said, "I'm learnin' her the trade." Location: Biloxi, Mississippi, February 1911. "It was hard times back then. That house they … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine Caption: Marie Kriss, seven years old, shucks oysters and picks shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co., when not tending the baby. Makes 25 cents some days. Biloxi, Mississippi, February 1911. “She said that when they first came here from Baltimore, they came on a train. She … [Read more...]

Lewis Hine caption: Sadie Kelly, 11 years old, picks shrimp for the Peerless Oyster Co. Picked 7 pots yesterday, 5 pots today at 5 cents. Picked last year. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, March 1911. "On my father’s side, about once a month, one of his siblings would … [Read more...]