Photographer: Lewis H.Hine (1874-1940) Title: Laborers at a Russian boarding house, 1909 Condition: Fine (see picture for details) Image size: 21x30,5 cm Print size: 40x30 cm High quality photolithograph printed in 1979 to commemorate Venezia '79 La Fotografia Copyright The Museum of Brooklyn typographically credited on sticker on verso Shipping from European Union (UE) Delivery with international tracking service From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia: Lewis Hine (born September 26, 1874, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.—died November 3, 1940, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) was an American photographer who used his art to bring social ills to public attention.Hine was trained as a sociologist. He began to portray the immigrants who crowded onto New York’s Ellis Island in 1905, and he also photographed the tenements and sweatshops where the immigrants were forced to live and work. These pictures were published in 1908 in Charities and the Commons (later Survey).Lewis W. Hine: photograph of an overseer and child workers in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills Overseer supervising a girl (about 13 years old) operating a bobbin-winding machine in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills, Mississippi, photograph by Lewis W. Hine, 1911; in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In 1909 Hine published Child Labor in the Carolinas and Day Laborers Before Their Time, the first of his many photo stories documenting child labour. These photo stories included such pictures as Breaker Boys Inside the Coal Breaker and Little Spinner in Carolina Cotton Mill, which showed children as young as eight years old working long hours in dangerous conditions. Two years later Hine was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to explore child-labour conditions in the United States more extensively. Hine traveled throughout the eastern half of the United States, gathering appalling pictures of exploited children and the slums in which they lived. He kept a careful record of his conversations with the children by secretly taking notes inside his coat pocket and photographing birth entries in family Bibles. He measured the children’s heights by the buttons on his vest. Hines’s photographs helped draw public attention to the problem of child labour in the United States and ultimately assisted in ushering in federal regulations on workplace conditions.