Lewis wickes (1874-1940) posters & prints

Child labour, c. 1913 Anonymous

Workers at the Construction of Empire State Building, 1932 Anonymous

Boy sweeper by carding machines at Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Indiana in stockinged feet on a slippery floor, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Family picking cotton near McKinney, Texas, 1913 Lewis Wickes Hine

5 year old Willie Hesse picks 15 pounds of cotton a day on his parents' 80 acre farm near West,... Lewis Wickes Hine

6 year old newsboy, known as Little Fattie and only 3 ft 4 ins tall, has been working for a... Lewis Wickes Hine

Millie, aged 4 picks 8 pounds of cotton a day and Nellie 5, picks 30 on a farm near Houston,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Gang of Newsboys at 10:00 p.m., 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

A doffer replaces full bobbins at Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Elsie and Sadie working at Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi said they were 13 years old, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

6-year old Warren Frakes with about 20 pounds of cotton in his bag at Comanche County, Oklahoma, 1916 Lewis Wickes Hine

Breaker boys at Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Telegraph boys using shower baths, Postal Tel. Co., Broadway, New York, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Charlie McBride aged 12 takes wood from a chute for 10 hours at Miller & Vidor Lumber Company, Beaumont, Texas Lewis Wickes Hine

10 year old Mike Murphy, 7 year old Annie Healy and 10 year old Ross Healy in the shucking shed... Lewis Wickes Hine

Ten year old Charlie Foster, unable to read, with a steady job at Merrimack Mills, Huntsville, Alabama, 1913 Lewis Wickes Hine

Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Sons of J.H. Burch aged 12, 14 & 17 stripping tobacco during school hours at Warren County, Rockfield, Kentucky, 1916 Lewis Wickes Hine

De Marco family shack for cranberry pickers at Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, New Jersey, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Bootblack in the Bowery, New York, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Mrs. Mette and her children making flowers in a dirty New York tenement, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

Children working in the spinning room at Magnolia Cotton Mills, Mississippi, 1911 Lewis Wickes Hine

5 year old migrant shrimp-picker Manuel in front of a pile of oyster shells Lewis Wickes Hine

Hattie Hunter, a spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina where she's worked for 3 years, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Newsboy, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Bill May, aged 5 who makes 15 cents a day, in the shucking shed at Barataria Canning Company, Biloxi, Mississippi,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn & Platt Canning Company, Bluffton,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Edith 5 and Hughie 6 pick cotton all day, Alton 7 picks 50 pounds and Ruth 9 picks 75, at... Lewis Wickes Hine

Joe Mello, aged 8 or 9 works as a mill sweeper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911. Lewis Wickes Hine

Luther Wharton aged 12, delivers medicines after school from 4 to midnight for Sommers Drug Store in San Antonio, Texas... Lewis Wickes Hine

Child apprentice at De Pedro Casellas Cigar Factory, Tampa, Florida, 1909 Lewis Wickes Hine

Corner of a shack used by pickers on Theodore Budd's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, New Jersey, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Two young spinners in Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, North Carolina, 1908 Lewis Wickes Hine

Cotton picker aged 4 who picks 15 pounds a day regularly and 7 year old who picks 50 Lewis Wickes Hine

Jo Arnao 3, picking cranberries with his brother 6 and sister 9 at Whites Bog, Browns Mills, New Jersey, 1910 Lewis Wickes Hine

Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Connecticut, 1917 Lewis Wickes Hine