Tenement homework. Child labor in homes in New York,Massachusetts,Rhode Island

Tenement homework. Child labor in homes in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
Title: Tenement homework. Child labor in homes in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Related Names:
National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) , funder/sponsor
Date Created/Published: 1910-1924.
Summary: Photographs show various homework industries: garment work, embroidery, button stringing, artificial flower making, jewelry work, cigarette making, nut picking, tooth brush making. The images depict tenement interiors with families at work; adults and children carrying large bundles of work through city streets; exteriors emphasizing housing and sanitation conditions. Most photographs were taken in the New York metropolitan area (particulary the Lower East Side), but homework in Massachusetts and Rhode Island is also represented. Also includes a few images of children playing with 'Campbell Kid' dolls made by tenement workers, one newspaper want ad for home workers, and exhibit panels protesting home labor.
Notes:
Arrangement: Photographs arranged in general chronological sequence by original inventory numbers assigned by Hine. These numbers are printed on album pages next to each image.
LOT title devised by Library staff.
'Tenement homework. Photographs by Lewis W. Hine for National Child Labor Committee, New York, New York' typed on verso of album cover.
No captions on the images. Corresponding Hine caption cards reflected in online records.
Hine negative numbers (prefixes LC-H5 or LC-H51) appear next to those photographs for which original negatives still exist.
Forms part of the National Child Labor Committee Collection (Library of Congress).
Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Also available on microfilm in the Prints & Photographs Division reading room; microfilmed in 1983 by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1954.
Subjects:
Child labor--United States--1900-1930.
Home labor--United States--1900-1930.
Tenement houses--United States--1900-1930.
Interiors--United States--1900-1930.
Group portraits--1900-1930.
Photograph albums--1900-1930.
Photographic prints--1900-1930.
Portrait photographs--1900-1930.
Bookmark /2004674302/
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