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see also:
Lewis Hine.
Girl Worker in a Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908
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Lewis Hine
(b Oshkosh, WI, 26 Sept 1874; d
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 4 Nov 1940).
American photographer.
Following several years as a factory worker in Oshkosh, and
a short period at the University of Chicago, where he
studied sociology and pedagogy (1900–01), he went to New
York to teach at the Ethical Culture School (1901–8). There
he acquired a camera as a teaching tool and soon set up a
club and ran classes at the school, while improving his own
skills as a self-taught photographer. In 1904 Hine’s
interest in social issues led him to document newly arrived
immigrants at Ellis Island as a way of demonstrating their
common humanity, for example Young Russian Jewess at
Ellis Island (1905). Thereafter he sought to demonstrate
the efficacy of the photograph as a truthful witness,
accepting commissions from social-work agencies. Towards the
end of the first decade he became official photographer on
the Pittsburgh Survey, a seminal investigation of America’s
archetypal industrial city, producing such images as Tenement House and Yard (1907–8; Rosenblum, Rosenblum
and Trachtenberg, p. 56).
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Powerhouse Mechanic
1920
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Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills, December 1, 1908.
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Man on hoisting ball
Empire State Building
New York, 1931
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Injured finger
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New England Mill, 1873
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New England Mill, 1873
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New England Mill, 1873
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New England Mill, 1873
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New England Mill, 1873
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Girl Worker in a Carolina Cotton Mill
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Spinner in New England Mill, 1873
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Spinner in New England Mill, 1873
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Spinner in New England Mill, 1873
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Climbing into America, Ellis Island
New York, 1905
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Group of Italians at Ellis Island
New York, ca 1905
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Young Russian Jewess, Ellis
Island
New York, 1905
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Handicapped - Crippled Steelworker
Pittsburgh,
1908
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Playground in Mill Village
1909
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Street Child
ca 1910
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Three Girls on Street
ca 1910
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Poor Home, New York City Tenement
1910
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Newsie
ca 1912
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Man on hoisting ball
Empire State Building
New York, 1931
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Man on
girders, mooring mast
Empire State Building
New York, ca 1931
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