Research Catalog
Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States
- Title
- Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
- Author
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
- Publication
- ca. 1900-1937.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 104 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 24.3 x 19.3 cm. and smaller.
- Summary
- Interior and exterior views concerning labor in various light and heavy industries, worker's housing and social conditions in the United States including Connecticut, Illinois, New England, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
- Subjects
- Basements
- Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
- Hamilton Watch Company (Lancaster, Penna.)
- Silver gelatin photographic prints
- Photographic prints
- Portraits
- Landscapes
- Interiors
- Cityscapes
- Yonkers (N.Y.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- Virginia
- Tennessee
- South Carolina
- Scotland Neck (N.C.)
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Pennsylvania
- Patterson (N.J.)
- North Carolina
- New York (State)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New Jersey
- New Haven (Conn.)
- New England
- Newark (N.J.)
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Millville (N.J.)
- Maryland
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- Lancaster (Pa.)
- Illinois
- Georgia
- Connecticut
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Charleston (S.C.)
- Camden (N.J.)
- Bethlehem (Pa.)
- Alexandria (Va.)
- Wool industry
- Women
- Window displays
- Waterfronts
- War work
- Warehouses
- Uniforms
- Unemployed
- Trucks
- Tugboats
- Tuberculosis
- Tincups
- Textile mill workers
- Textile machinery
- Textile industry
- Testing
- Tenement houses
- Sugar industry
- Streets
- Stoves
- Steamboats
- Stables
- Spinning machinery
- Snowshoeing
- Silk industry
- Signs
- Sick persons
- Shellfish industry
- Sewing machines
- Scientific equipment
- Salvage
- Religious articles
- Ramps
- Railroad construction & maintenance
- Railroad employees
- Ragpicking
- Radio industry
- Product inspections
- Printing presses
- Printing
- Poor persons
- Police
- Piers & wharves
- Peddlers
- Pawnshops
- Ovens
- Organ grinders
- Occupations
- Nursing
- Nurseries
- Newspaper carriers
- Mothers & children
- Men
- Mechanics (Persons)
- Measuring
- Marine terminals
- Markets
- Mannequins
- Luggage
- Longshoremen
- Loading docks
- Light fixtures
- Libraries
- Letter carriers
- Lamps
- Laboratories
- Kindergartens
- Infants
- Industrial buildings
- Immigrants
- Ice cream & ices
- Hosiery industry
- Horses
- Home labor
- Hats
- Glassworking
- Glass industry
- Glassblowing
- General stores
- Gangs
- Furniture industry
- Food industry
- African Americans
- Ammunition
- Arms & Armaments
- Artificial flower industry
- Bakeries
- Barbershops
- Barns
- Baseball
- Bedrooms
- Beggars
- Bicycle shops
- Blind persons
- Bread & soup lines
- Business enterprises
- Cabinet making
- Canals
- Card games
- Carpenter shops
- Carpenters
- Carriages & coaches
- Carts & wagons
- Checkers
- Chewing gum industry
- Child labor
- Children
- Children & adults
- Children playing outdoors
- Children praying
- Children reading
- Children's clothing & dress
- Cigar industry
- City & town life
- Classrooms
- Cleaning establishments
- Clock & watch industry
- Clock & watch making
- Clocks & watches
- Clothing & dress
- Clothing industry
- Coal miners
- Coal mining
- Confectioneries
- Cotton industry
- Dwellings
- Educational buildings
- Engineering
- Families
- Farm life
- Fathers & children
- Fences
- Genre/Form
- Cityscapes.
- Interiors.
- Landscapes.
- Portraits.
- Photographic prints.
- Silver gelatin photographic prints.
- Note
- Collection stamps, paper labels verso some items; Collection stamps recto below and/or on image lower right.
- Institutional stamps from "The National Child Labor Committee", "The National Council of Defense" and "The Milbank Memorial Fund" verso on some items.
- Photographer's stamps verso on some items.
- Titles, captions, subject designations, negative numbers, photographer's credits and dates inscribed in pencil and/or ink, verso, recto on or below image lower right on some items.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- "Injury noted" stamps, verso on some items.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Cite As (note)
- Romana Javitz Collection.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
- Provenance (note)
- Transfer, 1991.
- Call Number
- MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
- OCLC
- NYPG93-F177
- Author
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
- Title
- Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
- Imprint
- ca. 1900-1937.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Cite As:
- Romana Javitz Collection.
- Terms Of Use
- Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
- Finding Aids
- Detailed inventory available.
- Provenance
- Transfer, 1991.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Hamilton Watch Company (Lancaster, Penna.)Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
- Added Author
- Council of National Defense.Milbank Memorial Fund.National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)National Council of Defense.Romana Javitz Collection.
- Research Call Number
- MFZ (Hine) 93-6224