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