TITLE: Widow & boy rolling papers for cigarettes in a dirty N.Y. tenement. Location: New York. MARCH 1909
This photo was taken by Lewis Wickes Hine. He was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. In 1907, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Over the next decade, Hine documented child labor in American industry to aid the NCLC's lobbying efforts to end the practice. Between 1906 and 1909, he was a freelance photographer for The Survey, a leading social reform magazine. He took all these pictures to show the country the cruelties of child labor. A amazing collection I will be posting many of these.
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This photo speaks so much, talking about the times and the culture back then. I will be looking forward for more photos like this, possibly by the same photographer?
This photo has been taken exactly 100 years ago, and we still have the child labor problem. It's so sad.
That is an incredible photo. Am going to RT this one.
My paternal grandmother grew up on the Lower East Side in this era (she was 5 years old in 1907).
I saw this and thought "I should send link to Lidian"..but look who has already been here
so if it was taken in Feb 1908, why does the calendar on the wall display March 1909?
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