The history of our world through photography.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Newspaper Boy, Rochester, NY, 1910

Selling During School Hours 2 PM

Rochester, New York,  February 1910
photographed by Lewis Hines

Between 1907 and 1917 Lewis Hine working for the National Child Labor Committee,  documented with his photography child labor in America to aid NCLC lobbying efforts to end the practice 

This is a link to a wonderful gallery of Lewis Hines images. Joe Manning has attempted to  put a name to all these anonymous  children who lost their childhood working 10 hour days.

Joe Manning's  Lewis Hine Project

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