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SLIDESONCHILDLABORINAMERICA9-3-18.pptxCHILD LABOR IN AMERICA
The searing photos that helped end child labor in America
CHILD LABOR IN AMERICA
A young spinner in a North Carolina cotton manufacturing company poses for Lewis Hine, the documentary photographer who inspired the creation of laws to ban child labor. (Library of Congress)
CHILD LABOR IN AMERICA
Maud Daly, age 5 and Grade Daly, age 3, photographed by Hine in 1911. Hine wrote that each girl picked a pot of a shrimp a day for a Mississippi oyster company. “The youngest said to be the fastest worker,” Hine noted. (Library of Congress)
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The “breaker boys” at a Pennsylvania coal mine, photographed by Hine in 1911. (Library of Congress)
CHILD LABOR IN AMERICA
In 1916, Hine took this photo of Harold Walker, a 5-year-old field worker in Oklahoma. (Library of Congress)
CHILD LABOR IN AMERICA
Hine strove to show that working conditions for children were unsafe. At a Georgia textile mill in 1909, he found boys so small they had to climb on the machinery to mend broken threads. (Library of Congress
CHILD LABOR IN AMERICA
Hine photographed this 10-year-old boy on a tobacco farm in Connecticut in 1917. (Library of Congress)
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Hine took dozens of photos of newsboys on the streets of Washington. Here, he photographed 6-year-old Earle Holt in Southwest Washington. (Library of Congress)
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In 1911, Hine met these young workers at in a glass factory in Alexandria, Va. Hine rarely took photos of black children, who were typically not allowed to work alongside the white children he photographed. (Library of Congress)
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Frank, a 14-year-old coal miner in West Virginia, had his legs cut off by a motor car inside a mine. Hine photographed him in 1910. (Library of Congress)
Child labor in America (cont).
National Child Labor Committee Collection
REVIEV THE IMAGES ON THIS LINK
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/? st=grid&co=nclc
Blackboard Assignment:
Post your takeaway on the discussion section of the blackboard.
Generate questions for class discussion
Read and comment on the posts of other participant
Be constructive in your posts.
The searing photos that helped end child labor in America
LINK TO THE FIRST ARTICLE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/09/02/the-incredible-photos-that-inspired-the-end-of-child-labor-in-america/?utm_term=. bebe36fa9a29
ASSIGNMENT WEEK 1 OF CLASS
1. READ THE ARTICLE
2. POST YOUR TAKEAWAY AND COMMENT ON THE BLACKBOARD.
3. GENERATE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS DISCUSSION
