Lewis wickes hine

When Lewis Hine started photographing children at work in 1908, child labour was pervasive in American industry. His shocking images – from the cotton mills of Carolina to the coal breakers in Pennsylvania – helped bring about child labour laws

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West Virginia coal mines in the early 1900's -- boys

Lewis Wickes Hine, 1909

For the rest of my life, I remembered, and remembering brought back that same joy I felt riding home beside my Daddy that night.

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Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images

A new book shows the terrible price paid by the labourers who serviced machines, pushed coal carts and turned the wheels that drove the Industrial Revolution.