Tag / Lewis Hine
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Confronting photographs from the 1900s show the struggles of working children before child labor was abolished.
Photographer Lewis Hine was tasked with being the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee from 1908. Lewis traveled across the country, documenting child labor, and endured constant threats from factory owners as the existence of child labor was supposed to be kept away from the public’s eye. However, Hine persisted, adopting many different disguises…
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