Minneapolis Institute of Art

Making Apparatus for Laboratory, Glass Works, New Jersey

Lewis W. Hine

Date

c. 1937

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Lewis Hine was a documentary photographer, educator, and social reformer. Trained in sociology, Hine taught at the progressive Ethical Culture School in New York City before turning his attention to photography. As a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Hine traveled the United States to document children in unsafe working conditions in factories, mines, fields, and city streets. Over ten years, he created an indelible record of the human cost of an exploitative labor market, documenting the tired faces of children at the end of their shifts, or even children mutilated by industrial machinery. These disturbing photographs were used in publications and presentations created by Hine and the NCLC, and ultimately promoted sweeping policy changes designed to protect children. Americas

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