A Worker Sews These By Hand for $1.65
1912 · gelatin silver print on photographic support
height: 168 cm, width: 117 cm
Rijksmuseum
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Lewis Wickes Hine
1874
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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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Art Institute of Chicago
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