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Lewis Wickes Hine

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Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression captured young children working in harsh conditions, playing a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (10)

A Worker Sews These By Hand for $1.65

1912 · gelatin silver print on photographic support

height: 168 cm, width: 117 cm

Rijksmuseum

Dannie Mercurio, 150 Schottes Alley, Washington D.C.

1912 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 17.1 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Paper: 17.6 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Newspaper Vendor

1911 · gelatin silver print on baryta paper

height: 114 cm, width: 163 cm, width: 270 cm, height: 305 cm

Rijksmuseum

Italian Family, Chicago

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.6 × 17 cm (4 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Slums

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 11.7 × 16.4 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston

1909 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 12.3 × 17.2 cm (4 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper

1909 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 17.5 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.); Paper: 17.7 × 12.6 cm (7 × 5 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina

1908 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 11.6 × 15.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1905 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.7 × 16.9 cm (4 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

An Albanian woman from Italy at Ellis Island, 1905

gelatin silver print on baryta paper

width: 178 cm, height: 240 cm

Rijksmuseum

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10 published of 10 catalogued · 10 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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A Worker Sews These By Hand for $1.65
1912 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Newspaper Vendor
1911 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
An Albanian woman from Italy at Ellis Island, 1905
— · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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