Sunday, June 30, 2019

These Photos Ended Child Labor in the US

In 1900 there were 1.75 million children in the US younger than 16 (some as young as 4) who were employed at farms, mills, factories, and mines. The National Child Labor Committee hired American sociologist and photographer Lewis Wickes Hine to travel across the country and use his camera to document the plight of the working children.



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