Artworks · Lewis Hine

Icarus, Empire State Building

1930 · Gelatin silver print

9.1 x 11.5 cm (3 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Soldier Thrown in Air

1917 · gelatin silver print

image: 19.2 x 24.1 cm (7 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

School, y9, District 3. This was the attendance on December 3, and several children were absent on account of sickness

1915 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

image: 101 x 127 mm

Tate

The Morning Attendance at the Mill School, Huntsville, Alabama

1913 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in. (11.3 × 16.4 cm) Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in. (12.5 × 17.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title from caption on object: "Read All About It!"

1912 · gelatin silver print

image: 16.5 × 21.8 cm (6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 17.7 × 23 cm (6 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Worker Sews These By Hand for $1.65

1912 · gelatin silver print on photographic support

height: 168 cm, width: 117 cm

Rijksmuseum

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

At the Close of the Day, Pennsylvania

1911 · gelatin silver print

image: 11.2 × 16.4 cm (4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in.) sheet: 12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 6 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Newspaper Vendor

1911 · gelatin silver print on baryta paper

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

Rijksmuseum

Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in cotton mill, North Pownal, Vermont

1910 · gelatin silver print

image: 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Knitters in London (Tennessee) Hosiery Mills

1910 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

image: 107 x 167 mm

Tate

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

11:00 A.M. Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

1910 · Gelatin silver print

9.1 x 11.9 cm (3 9/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jo Lehman, a 7 year old newsboy. 824 Third Ave., N.Y. City. He was selling in this Saloon. I asked him about the badge he was wearing. "Oh! Dat's me bruder's," he said. Location: New York, New York.

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.6 x 9.5 cm (4 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and now would "stay". Location: Vermont

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.4 x 19.3 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.) Sheet: 25.4 x 20.4 cm (10 x 8 1/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

8:30 P.M. Group of newsboys selling at the depot, Hartford, Connecticut. Smallest boy 11 years old.

1909 · gelatin silver print

image: 11.8 × 16.8 cm (4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 11.8 × 17.6 cm (4 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Edward St. Germain and his sister Delia, mill workers, Phoenix, Rhode Island, April 1909

1909 · gelatin silver print

sheet: 11.8 × 17.7 cm (4 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.) image: 11.8 × 16.9 cm (4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Mery Horn, a hunchback condition aggravated by the heavy load of papers she carried. Hartford, Connecticut, March 1909

1909 · gelatin silver print

sheet/image: 11.9 × 16.9 cm (4 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Tony Casale, "Bologna," 11 years old been selling newspapers for 4 years, Hartford, Connecticut, March 1909

1909 · gelatin silver print

sheet: 12.6 × 17.6 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.) image: 11.3 × 16.4 cm (4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

John Pento, 14 years old, Daniel and Angelo Pento, 7 years old, selling newspapers, Hartford, Connecticut

1909 · gelatin silver print

sheet/image: 11.9 × 16.8 cm (4 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Wagon boy or "tail boy" helping to load the wagon

1909 · gelatin silver print

image: 12 × 17.1 cm (4 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 12.8 × 17.8 cm (5 1/16 × 7 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Hartford Newsboys

1909 · gelatin silver print

image: 11.9 x 16.9 cm (4 11/16 x 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 12 x 17.7 cm (4 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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

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

Lena Lochiavo - 11 years old, basket (and pretzel) seller, at Sixth Street Market in front of saloon entrance, Cincinnati, Ohio

1908 · gelatin silver print

sheet: 17.7 × 11.8 cm (6 15/16 × 4 5/8 in.) image: 16.9 × 11.8 cm (6 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Glass works. Indianapolis, Indiana

1908 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

image: 106 x 164 mm

Tate

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

Ivey Mill, Hickory, N.C. Little one, 3 years old, who visits and plays in the mill. Daughter of the overseer.

1908 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.7 x 16.9 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

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

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

Robert Paul, 216 Johnson Street, 10 year old newsy. Found at 11 P. N. with 12 papers near ? Hotel. Been at it 4 years. Often sells until midnight. He and brother make about $1.50 a day. Goes to school little. Sells around the college inn

Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

image: 114 x 92 mm

Tate

Exhibition panel (Everybody Pays but Few Profit from Child Labor)

Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

image: 149 x 88 mm

Tate

An Albanian woman from Italy at Ellis Island, 1905

gelatin silver print on baryta paper

width: 178 cm, height: 240 cm

Rijksmuseum