Child Labor

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Child Labor

• The Pictures of Lewis Hine

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Discussion Prompt

• "There is work that profits children, and there
  is work that brings profit only to employers. The
  object of employing children is not to train
  them, but to get high profits from their work."
• -- Lewis Hine, 1908

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• Garment Workers, New York, NYJanuary 25, 1908ARC
  Identifier 523065

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• Basket Seller, Cincinnati, OHAugust 22, 1908ARC
  Identifier 523070

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• Boys and Girls Selling RadishesAugust 22, 1908AR
  C Identifier 523071

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• Boy Working in a Shoe-Shining Parlor,
  Indianapolis, INAugust 1908ARC Identifier
  523072

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• Boys in a Cigar Factory, Indianapolis, INAugust 1
  908ARC Identifier 523076

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• Boy Running "Trip Rope" in a Mine,
  Welch, WVSeptember 1908ARC Identifier 523077

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• Children Working in a Bottle Factory,
  Indianapolis, INAugust 1908ARC Identifier
  523080

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• The Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Cannery,
  Indianapolis INAugust 1908ARC Identifier
  523088

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• Glass Blower and Mold Boy, Grafton, WVOctober 190
  8ARC Identifier 523090

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• Girls at Weaving Machines, Evansville, IN
  October 1908ARC Identifier 523100

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• Young Boys Shucking Oysters, Apalachicola, FLJanu
  ary 25, 1909ARC Identifier 523162

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• Girl Working in Box Factory, Tampa, FLJanuary 28,
   1909ARC Identifier 523166

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• Nine-Year Old Newsgirl, Hartford, CTMarch 6, 1909
  ARC Identifier 523174

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• Boy Picking Berries, Near Baltimore, MDJune 8, 19
  09ARC Identifier 523205

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• Workers Stringing Beans, Baltimore, MDJune 7, 190
  9ARC Identifier 523215

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• Boys Working in an Arcade Bowling Alley,
  Trenton, NJDecember 20, 1909ARC Identifier
  523246

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• Leo aged 8 working in a textile factory in
  Tennessee in 1910.

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• A young driver in the Brown mine. Has been
  driving one year. Works 7 a.m. to 530 p.m.
  daily. Brown W. Va

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Questions

• Why is Hines use of photography important in the
  child labor reform movement?
• How can we as historians use his photographs for
  a clearer understanding of the issues?
• What information can you gather from the
  photographs?
• What issues does the photographers point of view
  raise in our historical work?