Labor Day: Lewis Wickes Hine

“Lewis Hine, a New York City schoolteacher and photographer, believed that a picture could tell a powerful story. He felt so strongly about the abuse of children as workers that he quit his teaching job and became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.” Learn more at the National Archives: Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor

Garment Workers, New York, NY
January 25, 1908

National Archives and Records Administration
Records of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Children’s Bureau
Record Group 102
National Archives Identifier: 523065

 

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