In the Library of Congress

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (P&P)
101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20540-4730

The Prints and Photographs Division holds other photographs made by Lewis Hine:

• Photography (PH) Series - Photographs that Hine probably made for the NCLC but that the Library of Congress acquired from other sources. [example]
• American National Red Cross Collection - Photos Hine made in the U.S. and abroad for the American Red Cross, are presently unprocessed and are available under the conditions outlined in the Access to Unprocessed Materials policy. Catalog records for some unprocessed items for which copy film negatives have been made are available in the online catalog. [retrieve items available online]
• Farm Security Administration (FSA) Collection - The FSA collected some of Hine's photographs in the course of its documentary work. At least two items have been identified in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information file. [retrieve items available online]
• New York World Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection: At least one Hine photograph has been identified in this newspaper morgue. [retrieve items available online].

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20540-4680

Houses the textual records of the National Child Labor Committee [catalog record ]. A few duplicate photographs remain with the textual reports found in the NCLC Records. Information that places the photographs in the context of National Child Labor Committee investigations and activities can also be found in the NCLC records; in particular, Hine's reports include references to individual photographs by number [view a sample report].

In Other Institutions

The Index to American Photographic Collections (a database maintained by the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House found at http://www.geh.org/gehdata.html) lists more than 120 institutions that have reported holdings of Lewis Hine materials. Among the substantial collections are:

Maryland

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, Special Collections
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
URL: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/index.php
Photographs search sytem: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/imcat.php

Holds a set of Lewis Hine's National Child Labor Committee photographs purchased from the NCLC. The collection includes 5,000 captioned photographic prints--some bearing notations in the photographer's hand--as well as some corresponding original film negatives. Digitized images reproduced with the original caption cards are available online.

National Archives and Records Administration
Still Picture unit, National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, MD
URL: http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/photographs-dc.html
Search system: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/

Holds:

• Lewis Hine photographs for the National Child Labor Committee in its Children's Bureau records (RG 102).
• photographs Hine made for the Work Projects Administration's National Research Project (RG 69)
• photographs Hine made for the Tennessee Valley Authority (RG 142)
• a few Hine photographs in the Records of the Office of Education (RG 12).

New York

Columbia University
Avery Library,
New York, NY
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/
Online display: Empire State Building
http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/empire/empire-browser.html

Has a collection of Hine's Empire State Building photographs in its Empire State Building archive.

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
URL: http://www.eastmanhouse.org/
Photography Collections Online: http://www.geh.org/

Holds Lewis Hine's personal papers and photo collection, including nearly 4,000 negatives (most of them apparently not produced as part of Hine's work for the NCLC) and about 6,000 original and contact prints, from all stages of Hine's career.

New York Public Library
Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Photography Collection
URL:
Online displays - Hine work portraits:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/workport/work1.html
Hine photos of construction of the Empire State Building:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html

Holds about 100 photographic prints relating to labor, housing and social conditions, ca. 1900-1937 and 47 photographs of the Empire State Building under construction, ca. 1931, in its Romana Javitz Collection. Also holds more than 400 photographs documenting social conditions, 1905-1939, transferred from the New York Public Library's U.S., Local History and Genealogy Division, and some smaller groups of Hine photographs.

New York Public Library
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
New York, NY
URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/lhg/research.html

Holds about 250 photographs relating to immigrants, primarily at Ellis Island, as well as a selection of the child labor photographs.

New York Public Library
Archives
New York, NY
Finding aid: http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/nypl/archrg10/

Includes photographs taken by Lewis Hine for the Child Welfare Exhibit of 1911 of children's activities in the New York Public Library branch libraries.