3 A.M. Sunday, February 23rd, 1908. Newsboys selling on Brooklyn Bridg...
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Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girl...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. Hine no. 10-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More
Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
One of The Newsies at The Newsboys' Picnic, Cincinnati. Location: Cinc...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 28. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Clyde Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Doffers in the above mill. 50 operati...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 454. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Glass works. Location: West Virginia
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 180. No city recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library ... More
Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C...
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A doffer in the Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Location: Cherryv...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 269. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Boys taking away from saws and brading. Schultze, Waltman & Co. Planin...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 194. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Sack Race, the Newsboys' Picnic. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 20. After the word "Picnic" text is cut off on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee ... More
Hot Weather Delights, Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati. Lo...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 22. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
A Typical Errand Boy Minding Another Boy's Business. Boston 1915 Exhib...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 940. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
A group of people standing in front of a brick building Noon hour, Kin...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 501. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Night shift going work. N.J. Nov. 15, 1909. Cumberland Glass Works. Lo...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 969. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
John Bryan, a young turner in London i.e., Loudon? Hosiery Mills. Loca...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1889. There is both a Loudon and a London, Tennessee. UMBC records similar photos as "Loudon," however. Credit li... More
Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1794. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. Sells regularly on Grand A...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1394. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
William Lynch, 11 years of age, and Cornelius Lynch, 9 years of age, 6...
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Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danvill...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2192. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks?, been working in Yocona Mill, Water Va...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2118. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Robert Magee (smallest). 270 Suffolk St., Apparently 12 years old Been...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2618. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Little girl, apparently 6 yrs. old - but didn't know her name or age -...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3235. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits
Hine , Lewis Wickes.Night scene. 7:30 P.M. January 29, 1912. Making violets, and they often work later. Pollinni family, 5 Carmine St., N.Y. living in a reary [i.e., rear.] tenement. The six year old helps some... More
"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...
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"Driving boy" driving sheep into the sheep pens at Carlisle. Location...
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Part of the Merchants Mill. One section built in 1867 and one in 1871....
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4285. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More
Doffers - Boss said 14 and 15 years old. Indian Orchard Cotton Mill. ...
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Roundstone School. Many poorly built schools in county. Location: Roc...
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15-year old boy who says he works some for the railroad. Location: Mo...
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American Linen Co. Spooler tender. Location: Fall River, Massachusett...
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Woman's Union. Happy Girls Club. Working girls in foreground. School g...
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Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The chi...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4520. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More
Incorrect sitting position for postural deformity and dorsal curvature...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4673. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old ...
In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4772. Hine no. 4773. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More
Young office boy, working for J.J. O'Brien and Sons on East 23 Street....
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Gertrude Belier, 15 years old. Hemming curtains on machine at Boutwell...
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Old Time Freight Brakeman – New York Central
Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) Public domain reproduction of artwork in Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Greenbank Consolidated School. One of the largest and best in the coun...
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The Mullens children (& some neighbors) ready for school. See Photo No...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5102. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 82. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More
Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits
Hine, Lewis Wickes .Newark i New Jersey. USA 1923..Of a family of 7 children, all but 2 work stringing tags. The oldest child is 12. The nurse of the school which these children attend, reports that they are co... More
Empire State Building, gelatin silver print
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Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3112. In phrase "when he found the boy," the word boy is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Ch... More
Roland, eleven year old negro newsboy, Newark, N.J. - August 1st, 1924...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 4945. "114" recorded in pencil in lower right of caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committe... More
Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 30-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
A little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admit...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 490. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Newspaper comments on new child labor law in Penn. Location: Pennsylva...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1199. Text cut off, probably "Photo by Lewis W. Hine." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collec... More
This is the condition in which I found the lower hall at 266 Elizabeth...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2824. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More
All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3551. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A....
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3793. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Hyman, six year old newsie. Another six year old newsie said he sold u...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2468. Also in LOT 7480, v. 2. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress... More
Farm work. Pauls Valley Training School. Lewis W. Hine. See 4833-4842....
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A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending...
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Spinners & doffers in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as sm...
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Boys judging prize heifers at 4 H Club Fair at Charleston, West Virgin...
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Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits
Hine, Lewis Wickes..Portrait of an Italian mother and child. Just arrived at Ellis Island along with hundreds of other immigrants that day. In search of a better life..USA 1905.."Lewis Hine, Passionate journey.... More
A.D.T. ? messengers. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 53. Handwritten caption difficult to decipher. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Li... More
One of spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. (N.C.) She was 51 inches hi...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 463. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
The doffers in Whitnel (N.C.) Mfg. Co. Location: Whitnel, North Caroli...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 438. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Indianapolis Furniture Factory's Water Boy. Witness, E.N. Clopper. Loc...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 65. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More
Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits
Hine, Lewis Wickes.Little spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She was so small she had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads. See also photo 488. Jan. 19, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia.
One of the ball-teams made up of boys from Natick Mills, Natick, R.I. ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 686. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Four incorrigibles not even reached by the Vocational School. Location...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1234. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Works. Smallest boy "ravels," sm...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1905. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Michael McNelis, 612 Noble St., age 8 yrs. Old, newsboy. This boy just...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1617. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
Kuyrkendall family, recently from farm. Three children in front row (o...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2097. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
A few of the young boys working in the Cigarette Factory, Danville (Vi...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2188. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits
Hine, Lewis Wickes .Stilas med en arbeider. Oppføringen av Empire State Building, New York, USA. .NMFF.000835
A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,. Location: R...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2958. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection,... More
Three National Child Labor Committee Exhibition Panels
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7-year old Rosie. Regular oyster shucker. Her second year at it. Illit...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 3305. Year not recorded on caption card; 1913 based on cards for photographs with neighboring numbers taken i... More
Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Val...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3640. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Jacksonville, Florida, messenger boy. (See Report of E.F. Brown and Le...
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34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4044. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of ...
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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acre...
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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4475. "Div. 4" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More
Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle, 10 years, Zelina, 12 years, Florence, 1...
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Vocational Printing. Math. class. See 4168. Location: Fall River, Mas...
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Toting wood - Scavenger. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis ...
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[Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village.] ...
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[Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in K...
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Mildred Benjamin, 17 years old. Right dorsal curvature. Scoliosis. Rig...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4666. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
Helen Whitty (15 years old). Hand drawn work on curtains at Boutwell, ...
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Young girl working in Friedman Shelby Shoe Factory,. Location: Kirksvi...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1741. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee col... More
Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's wo...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2032. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1205. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congr... More
Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos ? Valley...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3639. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Boy at warping machine, Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: Ne...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 441. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Indianapolis Newsboys Waiting for the Base-ball Edition In a Newspaper...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 110. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Bank Boss (on right) Brake Boy (in centre) Laura Mine, Red Star, West ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 168. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More
Mary _____________, a Polish girl and her mother, picking berries on B...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 833. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More
Group, showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J.S. Farran...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 854. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More
Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of chi...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1984. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1306. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congr... More
Group of Breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma, Pine Street. (See labe...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1948. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More
Eight year old newsie. Many youngsters get up early to sell papers. On...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3558. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Row of Coal miners shanties on Elk River at Bream, West Virginia. Loca...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5096. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 76. Geographic location at top of card is expressed as "Elk River, Bream, W. ... More
American Linen Co. Cleaner - Spinning room. Location: Fall River, Mas...
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Continuation school girls looping stocking in Ipswich Mills. Location...
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14 year old Spooler tender. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, ...
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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be i...
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Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger...
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