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Lewis Hine was an American photographer whose early 1900s images of child labor for the National Child Labor Committee supported U.S. reform campaigns.
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What child labor work is Lewis Hine most associated with?
Lewis Hine is most associated with his photographs for the National Child Labor Committee in the early 1900s. His images of mill workers, newsboys, and coal breaker boys helped support U.S. child labor reform campaigns.
Did Lewis Hine photograph immigrants at Ellis Island?
Yes. Hine photographed immigrants at Ellis Island in the early 20th century, before his best-known child labor investigations.
Why are Lewis Hine's Empire State Building photos famous?
Hine photographed workers building the Empire State Building in New York in 1930 and 1931. Those images show men high above Manhattan and became part of his book Men at Work.
How is Lewis Hine different from Jacob Riis?
Jacob Riis used flash photography in the 1890 book How the Other Half Lives to expose New York tenement conditions. Hine worked later and often paired documentary photographs with reform campaigns, especially through the National Child Labor Committee.
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