The History Place - Child Labor in America: Investigative Photos of Lewis Hine

Glass works. Midnight. Location: Indiana. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, April 1908. From the National Child Labor Committee Collection at the Library of Congress (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The History Place - Child Labor in America: Investigative Photos of Lewis Hine:











 " Faces of Lost Youth"

From 1908 to 1912, Hine took his camera across America to photograph children as young as three years old working for long hours, often under dangerous conditions, in factories, mines, and fields. Hine was an immensely talented photographer who viewed his young subjects with the eye of a humanitarian.

In 1909, he published the first of many photo essays depicting working children at risk. In these photographs, the essence of wasted youth is apparent in the sorrowful and even angry faces of his subjects. Some of his images, such as the young girl in the mill glimpsing out the window, are among the most famous photographs ever taken.

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