Person
Lewis Hine
New York teacher and photographer who documented child labor for the National Child Labor Committee.
- Dates
- 1874–1940
- Wikidata
- Q347194
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worked at
- National Child Labor Committee investigative photographer Scholarship & press 1
influenced
- Keating–Owens Act Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1874–1940 Lewis Hine
Proof 1 source
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Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
Scholarship & press
He felt so strongly about the abuse of children as workers that he quit his teaching job and became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
Hine's images of working children stirred America's conscience and helped change the nation's labor laws.
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