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Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The NCLC photos are useful for the study of labor, reform movements, children, working class families, education, public health, urban and rural housing conditions, industrial and agricultural sites, and other aspects of urban and rural life in America in the early twentieth century.
The collection consists of more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives, given to the Library of Congress, along with the NCLC records, in 1954 by Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, acting for the NCLC in her capacity as chief executive.
Information about obtaining copies is available through the "How to Order" link near the top of each catalog record.
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Photos displayed at the top: 1) [Half-length portrait of a girl, standing, working at a machine in a textile plant, facing right, Cherryville, N.C.], LC-DIG-nclc-01357. 2) [John Sousa, his mother holding a baby, and another boy in a crowded, dirty home, New Bedford, Mass.], LC-DIG-nclc-02470.
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