As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.

Lewis Hine’s photos of child labor at Stanford museum By Jessica Zack Updated May 25, 2016 1:35 p.m. Lewis Wickes Hine (U.S.A., 1874 1940), One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C ...

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.

Lewis Hine once said that he was "more interested in persons than in people." The same is true of a novelist. Even though I didn't know what had happened to that child, I decided to imagine a life ...

Hine’s work attracted the attention of the NCLC, which had been founded in 1904 with the mission of ending child labor. The organization had a particular project in mind for Hine.

Lewis Wickes Hine's 1909 photograph of a young spinner in a Georgia cotton mill The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (P545), under CC BY-SA 4.0 Traveling the ...

In the summer of 1910, Lewis Hine visited the Berkshires to take some photographs. But these weren’t the usual vacation snaps. Hine was working for the newly formed National Child Labor Board, an ...

Lewis Hine’s photograph of Addie Card, taken in August 1910, has become an iconic image of child labor. Hine learned that Addie started working at the North Pownal, Vermont, cotton mill when she ...

This child working at a North Carolina cotton mill in 1908 told photographer Lewis Hine, "I'm not old enough to work but do just the same." (National Archives) If there is a predictable outcome ...

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped child labor laws get passed, are worth our attention once again.