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Lewis 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.

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Artworks (12)

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

A Worker Sews These By Hand for $1.65

1912 · gelatin silver print on photographic support

width: 117 cm, height: 168 cm

Rijksmuseum

Newspaper Vendor

1911 · gelatin silver print on baryta paper

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

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Cotton Mill, South Carolina

1905 · gelatin silver print

Image: 11.6 x 16.9 cm (4 9/16 x 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 12.7 x 17.7 cm (5 x 6 15/16 in.); Matted: 30.6 x 35.6 cm (12 1/16 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Bicycle Messenger, South Carolina

1905 · gelatin silver print

Image: 17 x 11.7 cm (6 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.); Paper: 17.8 x 12.7 cm (7 x 5 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portret van een onbekende Albanese vrouw uit Italië op Ellis Island

gelatin silver print on baryta paper

width: 178 cm, height: 240 cm

Rijksmuseum

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12 published of 12 catalogued · 10 with image

Art Institute Chicago
7 published7 img
Rijksmuseum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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