Child Labor Photographs

As a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine (1874-140) documented child labor across America. His images exposed the harshness of the practice and the poor conditions under which the children worked.

The George Eastman House has an online exhibit of Lewis Hine's work titled "Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor". Take a look. Images such as "Little Spinner in Mill, Augusta, GA" and Breaker boys in coal chute, South Pittston, Pennsylvania are both striking and disturbing.

Next, stop by the Child Labor Education and Action Project and find out more about child labor in the modern world.

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