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In Poverty Gap, West 28th Street: An English Coal-heaver's Home, Jacob Riis
Minding the Baby. Scene in Gotham Court, Jacob Riis
The Street, their Playground, Jacob Riis
East Side Public School. A Class in the Condemned Essex Market School. Gas burning by day, Jacobn Riis
Dens of Death, Jacob Rii
A Flat in the Pauper's Barracks with All Its Furniture, Jacob Riis
Pedlar (sic) Who Slept in the Cellar of 11 Ludlow Street Rear, Jacob Riis
Night School in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House, Jacob Riis
Mulberry Bend, New York, Jacob Riis
The Mulberry Bend Became a Park, Jacob Riis
Hull House basketball team
Visitors noted the less-than-optimal conditions for health and sanitation that directly affected children's well-being. As a result, children were given baths in settlement houses. (Note the immunization scab on the arm of the child on the right).
Art lessons at Hull House
Photos by Wallace Kirkland of children enjoying Hull House activities
The Chicago Stockyards
Filling skins at the Stockyards, 1900, Chicago.
This is the wasteland created where the runoff from the Stockyards connected to the river - and at one time was technically known as the eastern fork of the south branch of the Chicago River.
1912 unloading hogs from train at Union Stock Yard, Chicago
The bodies of girls who had jumped out the burning Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire.
The bodies of the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire lined up for identification in a makeshift nearby morgue.
The scortched interos of th Triangle Shirtwaist fFactory
The collapsed fire excape
One Arm and Four Children, Lewis Hines
February 1910. Addie Card,12 years old, anemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, Vermont. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school
vacation and would 'stay.' (Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.)
The Mill: A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis Hines
The Mill: One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mill. She was 51 inches high. Has been in the mill one year. Sometimes works at night. Runs 4 sides - 48 cents a day. When asked how old she was, she
hesitated, then said, "I don't remember," then added confidentially, "I'm not old enough to work, but do just the same." Out of 50 employees, there were ten children about her size. Whitnel, North
Carolina. Lewis Hines
Newsies: A group of newsies selling on the Capitol steps. Tony, age 8, Dan, 9, Joseph, 10, and John, age 11. Washington, D.C. Lewis Hines
Newsies: Where the newsboy's money goes (an ice cream vendor). Wilmington, Delaware. Lewis Hines
Seafood Workers: Manuel the young shrimp picker, age 5, and a mountain of child labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Biloxi, Mississippi. Lewis Hines
Seafood Workers: Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory. All but the very smallest babies work. Began work at 3:30 a.m. and expected to work until 5 p.m. The little girl in the center was working. Her
mother said she is "a real help to me." Dunbar, Louisiana. Lewis Hines
Struggling Families: A family working in the Tifton Cotton Mill. Four smallest children not working yet. The mother said she earns $4.50 a week and all the children earn $4.50 a week. Husband died and left her with 11 children. Two of them went off and got married. The family left the farm two years ago to
work in the mill. Tifton, Georgia. Lewis Hines
Struggling Families: A Jewish family and neighbors working until late at night sewing garters. This happens several nights a week when there is plenty of work. The youngest work until 9 p.m. The
others until 11 p.m. or later. On the left is Mary, age 7, and 10-year-old Sam, and next to the mother is a 12-year-old boy. On the right are Sarah, age 7, next is her 11 year old sister, 13-year-old brother.
Father is out of work and also helps make garters. New York City. Lewis Hines