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Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States

Title
Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Author
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Publication
ca. 1900-1937.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Council of National Defense.
  • Milbank Memorial Fund.
  • National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
  • National Council of Defense.
  • Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
104 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 24.3 x 19.3 cm. and smaller.
Summary
Interior and exterior views concerning labor in various light and heavy industries, worker's housing and social conditions in the United States including Connecticut, Illinois, New England, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Subject
  • African Americans
  • Ammunition
  • Arms & Armaments
  • Artificial flower industry
  • Bakeries
  • Barbershops
  • Barns
  • Baseball
  • Basements
  • Bedrooms
  • Beggars
  • Bicycle shops
  • Blind persons
  • Bread & soup lines
  • Business enterprises
  • Cabinet making
  • Canals
  • Card games
  • Carpenter shops
  • Carpenters
  • Carriages & coaches
  • Carts & wagons
  • Checkers
  • Chewing gum industry
  • Child labor
  • Children
  • Children & adults
  • Children playing outdoors
  • Children praying
  • Children reading
  • Children's clothing & dress
  • Cigar industry
  • City & town life
  • Classrooms
  • Cleaning establishments
  • Clock & watch industry
  • Clock & watch making
  • Clocks & watches
  • Clothing & dress
  • Clothing industry
  • Coal miners
  • Coal mining
  • Confectioneries
  • Cotton industry
  • Dwellings
  • Educational buildings
  • Engineering
  • Families
  • Farm life
  • Fathers & children
  • Fences
  • Food industry
  • Furniture industry
  • Gangs
  • General stores
  • Glassblowing
  • Glass industry
  • Glassworking
  • Hats
  • Home labor
  • Horses
  • Hosiery industry
  • Ice cream & ices
  • Immigrants
  • Industrial buildings
  • Infants
  • Kindergartens
  • Laboratories
  • Lamps
  • Letter carriers
  • Libraries
  • Light fixtures
  • Loading docks
  • Longshoremen
  • Luggage
  • Mannequins
  • Markets
  • Marine terminals
  • Measuring
  • Mechanics (Persons)
  • Men
  • Mothers & children
  • Newspaper carriers
  • Nurseries
  • Nursing
  • Occupations
  • Organ grinders
  • Ovens
  • Pawnshops
  • Peddlers
  • Piers & wharves
  • Police
  • Poor persons
  • Printing
  • Printing presses
  • Product inspections
  • Radio industry
  • Ragpicking
  • Railroad employees
  • Railroad construction & maintenance
  • Ramps
  • Religious articles
  • Salvage
  • Scientific equipment
  • Sewing machines
  • Shellfish industry
  • Sick persons
  • Signs
  • Silk industry
  • Snowshoeing
  • Spinning machinery
  • Stables
  • Steamboats
  • Stoves
  • Streets
  • Sugar industry
  • Tenement houses
  • Testing
  • Textile industry
  • Textile machinery
  • Textile mill workers
  • Tincups
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tugboats
  • Trucks
  • Unemployed
  • Uniforms
  • Warehouses
  • War work
  • Waterfronts
  • Window displays
  • Women
  • Wool industry
  • Alexandria (Va.)
  • Bethlehem (Pa.)
  • Camden (N.J.)
  • Charleston (S.C.)
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Connecticut
  • Georgia
  • Illinois
  • Lancaster (Pa.)
  • Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
  • Maryland
  • Millville (N.J.)
  • Nashville (Tenn.)
  • Newark (N.J.)
  • New England
  • New Haven (Conn.)
  • New Jersey
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • New York (State)
  • North Carolina
  • Patterson (N.J.)
  • Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia (Pa.)
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.)
  • Scotland Neck (N.C.)
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Yonkers (N.Y.)
Genre/Form
  • Cityscapes.
  • Interiors.
  • Landscapes.
  • Portraits.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Note
  • Collection stamps, paper labels verso some items; Collection stamps recto below and/or on image lower right.
  • Institutional stamps from "The National Child Labor Committee", "The National Council of Defense" and "The Milbank Memorial Fund" verso on some items.
  • Photographer's stamps verso on some items.
  • Titles, captions, subject designations, negative numbers, photographer's credits and dates inscribed in pencil and/or ink, verso, recto on or below image lower right on some items.
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • "Injury noted" stamps, verso on some items.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Cite As (note)
  • Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Provenance (note)
  • Transfer, 1991.
Call Number
MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
OCLC
NYPG93-F177
Author
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
Title
Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Imprint
ca. 1900-1937.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite As:
Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms Of Use
Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding Aids
Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
Transfer, 1991.
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Local Subject
Hamilton Watch Company (Lancaster, Penna.)
Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Added Author
Council of National Defense.
Milbank Memorial Fund.
National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
National Council of Defense.
Romana Javitz Collection.
Research Call Number
MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
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