Lewis Hine is one of the most well-known photographers of the Progressive Era. This week you need to upload a Lewis Hine photo and explain how it represents the Progressive Era. I love Lewis Hine photos...such important pieces of our history. Have fun...I can't wait to see what pictures you pick!!
Mrs. Demmel
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ReplyDeleteThis picture depicts garment workers in New York, and was taken on January 26, 1908 - exactly 106 years ago. It was identified in the records of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Children's Bureau. This particular shot, like most of those taken by Hine, exposed the real images of child labor. While this isn't a gruesome image, or an image of children risking their lives in the mines, this shows how two little kids, and who looks like could be their mother, sewing clothes and working in the in-home garment industry. At this time, the production of readymade clothing was at a rise, and mostly taken on by women.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture depicts the practice of child labor during the Progressive Era. This picture was taken in Bibb Mill No. 1. Macon, Georgia. One can see that the children were so small that they had to climb up on the spinning frames to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins. While Child Labor grew extensively during the Progressive Era, this was also the time period where several laws were passed in attempt of improving the conditions of Child Labor in the United States.
Hine, Lewis. The Mill. N.d. Photograph. The History Place. Web. 26 Jan. 2014.
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ReplyDeleteThis 1931 photograph is one of a famous set of images that Lewis Hine took during the construction of the Empire State Building. In this picture, three men can be seen many stories above the ground trying to bolt in a horizontal steel beam. The New York City landscape sprawls across the background, starkly silhouetting the men. They wear no harnesses; indeed, safety gear is practically nonexistent in the image, a dangerous condition that was typical during the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era also saw a great increase in workers' compensation or insurance as a result of dangerous jobs such as this skyscraper construction, and photographs like this were a strong cause of the formation of industrial commissions that regulated workplace safety to some degree, resulting in fewer on-the-job accidents.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a photo by Lewis Hine. It is a picture of children who have been working in the sweatshops during the progressive era. These children are working in a Lancaster Mill in South Carolina in 1908. This is an important part of the Progressive era and a very good example of the harsh conditions in factories. Workers worked long hours in unsafe conditions and got paid very little. Lewis Hine captured many of these harsh conditions in which young children worked in his photograph to show the country. This led to the reform of child labor laws and other acts to keep factories safe.
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ReplyDeleteThis is picture of a young girl by Lewis Hine. The girl can't be more than eight or nine years old but is working in some sort of mill. The picture represents the Progressive Era very well, because back then, child labor was a very important topic. Pictures like these helped to set laws such as having to be at least 12 to be hired, and having a maximum 10-hour workday.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture shows many younger boys working in a glass works factory. This represents the Progressive Era because of the grimy working conditions, unorganized and potentially dangerous factory settings, and young work force. There is a lot of clutter and pipes; the environment was most likely to be very hot and stuffy because of the heat needed to manipulate glass. Combined with the dirt and ruddy equipment, the level of disease and discomfort was very high. This young workforce shows the prominent sign of Progressive Era labor.
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ReplyDeleteThis image, taken by Lewis Hine, depicts a group of coal miners presumably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Manual laborers such as miners, steelworkers, and sweatshop workers experienced horrible working and living conditions during this period in American history. In 1910, a study found that one-fourth of steelworkers were killed or injured each year. During Progressive Era, journalists or photographers such as Lewis Hine began to take interest in the inhumane conditions of laborers in the new industrial economy. As the American public became more aware of the conditions of workers, many miners and other employees (such as the men in this picture), began to unionize. The American government also passed legislation such as Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 which protected strikers from being prosecuted under antitrust laws. Another goal of the Progressive Era was the restriction of child labor. Many of the miners in the picture look to be not older than their teens. By 1900, 1.7 million children worked in the American industry. In 1912, the height of the Progressive Era, the U.S. Children’s Bureau was established largely thanks to the lobbying of progressive interest groups. Most likely taken by Hine to expose the working conditions in American mines, this picture represents the labor and child labor movements during the Progressive Era.
Sources:
DeleteFaragher, John M., Mari J. Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People; AP Edition. Sixth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print.
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ReplyDeleteBetween 1929 and 1931, over 3,400 people worked on the construction of the Empire State Building, most of them European immigrants and Mohawk Indians. This picture by Lewis Hine shows one of these workers suspended over hundreds of feet by a construction cable using no form of harness or safety equipment. One of the many goals of progressives in the Progressive Era was to improve the safety conditions of working class Americans in factories, mines, and other unsafe occupations. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, government safety and health regulations were almost nonexistent, and factory and mine owners invested little to none in safety equipment. In one example of poor safety conditions, a fire started in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company building, and because of locked exits and nonexistent fire escapes, 146 people were unable to escape the flames and lost their lives. As a direct result of this event, state laws were soon passed that helped to improve safety conditions for workers.
Works Cited
Delete"Empire State Building." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.
Faragher, John M., Mari J. Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People; AP Edition. Sixth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture shows a five year old boy named Francis Lance who is jumping on a train trolley. This picture shows the progressive era because it shows child labor and the dangers it posed to children, Jumping on the trolley was dangerous but Francis did it every day to deliver papers. Lance is a newsie which helps to show the importance of paper at the time. Newspapers at the time helped to show the problems that the progressive era was trying to solve by publishing articles on them.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture depicts a group of workers several stories off the ground eating lunch on the Empire State building. These workers were well above the ground with the wind whipping about them and no safety belts or harnesses. The construction of the Empire State building was so dangerous that 2 in 5 workers died or were injured on the job. Despite these dangers, the workers were offered twice the usual pay in a factory. This shows the lack of safety of workers on all construction projects
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ReplyDeleteLewis Hine, starting mostly in 1908, did much work on photographing young child labor in an attempt to raise awareness and spark reform for child labor laws. In this photo, a very young boy is working in a sewing or thread making factory. He is wearing fairly tattered clothes, and looks dirty. These photographs that Hine took of child labor were very representative of the Progressive Era because this era included many societal reforms for issues like child labor, women's rights, and working hours and conditions.
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ReplyDeleteLewis Hine, one of the most well known photographers of all time, took many photos around the time of Progressive Era. In the photo above, it is of a kid who just got off work and is very dirty and tired looking. This represents this time period as people are beginning to learn that child labor is not a good thing and reform of child labor was beginning. This picture is kind of the epitome of child labor, and why it is bad.
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ReplyDeleteIn this photo, Lewis Hine finds Manuel in Biloxi, Mississippi. He is only five years old, but is working in the seafood industry. He is holding two empty buckets, and is wearing an apron covered in fluid. Behind him, there is a mountain of oyster shells that extend beyond the photo boundaries. He doesn't speak any English. This photo represents the Progressive Era because child labor was a key component to many companies of the time. They were treated and compensated much like regular adult workers in the same company. Eventually, reforms were made that set a hiring age and restricted the length of the work days.
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ReplyDeleteThis Lewis Hine photo is representative of the Progressive era for numerous reasons. Its a picture of a fairly young boy holding up a tray of cans . Obviously there's the problem of child labor, which the progressive era did eventually change . Notice how all the cans are completely blank and unlabeled. Canned food usually doesn't spoil however there's no way to determine whats in the can . This was changed by the Drug and Food act. Lastly the boy isn't wearing any shoes and the floor is dirty. I assume he is in a kitchen and of course at that time they didn't have any sanitation regulations.
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ReplyDeleteThis photo by Lewis Hine is of newsies going into a saloon at night, in New England. The problem with newsboys were that they not only worked during the night and slept during the day, therefore not going to school, but they also went into saloons and brothels to sell newspapers. The implications of this photo are that children are going into places meant for adults, and with alcohol constantly in their surroundings, it's hard not to be influenced. The newsies are forced to see the world of alcohol and sex at a young age by going to these places to make a living. Some of these photos are done from Hine's time as an official photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
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ReplyDeleteThis photo taken by Lewis Hine depicts a young man, maybe in his teens, bent over a steam pump in a power factory. The many is wearing heavily worn and scuffed clothes, and seems to be straining to turn the pump. This represents the progressive era because it shows the reliance of many large companies and factories for low wage workers, the poor conditions these workers lived in, and the way these workers were treated.
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ReplyDeleteThe illustration here is of a young boy working away at his family's farm. The caption below recalls on how the child, twelve years old, would work from six in the morning to six in the evening so that his family would be able to make a living out of seven hundred dollars in two months. Though most of Lewis Hines's photography mainly draws focus to the alarming and unsuitable conditions of child workers in the factory, it is shown here how the employment of child labor is excessively maneuvered even at home. Even though child workers in their farms are less exposed to severe dangers, they still spend exaggerated hours on the field with little to no breaks. Throughout the Progressive Era, leading reformers such as Florence Kelley took it upon themselves to bring about laws and regulations regarding these issues. The focus, instead, was to bring education to the majority of the nation's youth rather than have them spend most of their time laboring. This photo also draws attention to the issue of poverty and imbalance in society. Given the fact that a family is relying on its children to make $700 in two months, which even then is insufficient to provide for four individuals, it can be inferred that they are ether on the verge of poverty or financially struggling to maintain themselves. Prior to the era of political and social reform, the principle of Social Darwinism was largely sustained across the nation, holding the notion that any effort to improve social conditions would fail because society was supposedly a jungle in which only the fittest or wealthy could survive, The Progressive Era targeted the imbalance of poverty and wealth by emphasizing the need for citizens to intervene, both politically and morally, to ameliorate such conditions.
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ReplyDeleteThis photo by Lewis Hine depicts a construction worker on site of a large New York City building. He is seen here balancing atop a small steel platform, with no security, while he attempts to fetch tools and continue to work. This man is very, very high in the sky and has absolutely zero safety. This clearly highlights a very important part of the Progressive Era. Many men who worked on constructing skyscrapers in the city were giving absolutely no safety, which is a very scary task for most men. On top of being paid extremely little in wages, these men were treated very uncaringly by their employers who provided them with no fall back of any kind if they happened to slip. Any accidental infraction could cost a man's life which demonstrated an overlying theme of poor worker safety during the Progressive Era. This time period in the U.S. was about city development and industrial-based economic boom, which forced many desperate civilians and immigrants to risk their lives just to make a few bucks.
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ReplyDeleteThese three girls in their adolescence were employed as spinners at the Sulfox Knitting Mills, Virginia in 1911. This photo represents the Progressive Area as it was a time in which reforms for the labor of children and women was taking place. These girls would have been effected by reforms that limited the working age to fifteen and the work day to only eight hours for women. The spinners in this photo represent young workers who endured brutal conditions with high exceptions of mass outputs. Hine captures the essence of the Progressive Era with this one photo as these girls would have been apart of the most oppressed who received the most reform.
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ReplyDeleteThis is undoubtedly one of my favorite photographs by Lewis Hine. It was taken on May 9, 1910 in St. Louis and is title "Newsboys Smoking at Skeeter's Branch".
Like many of Hine's photographs, this one illustrates the use of child labor during the Progressive Era. For many lower class and immigrant families, all parts of the family had to work in order to maintain their lifestyle- as meager as it might be. The reality of the Progressive Era for many people in America forced children to grow up much faster than before. They had to take on jobs (often in industrial labor), take care of families, and become a part of the working class society, which included the popular trend of smoking amongst workers.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a famous photo used by the National Labor Committee. It is a small dirty boy with two buckets at his sides.He is wearing torn-up clothing. This photograph illustrates the young age that many Americans were working. It was used by the NLC to demand shorter work hours and restrictions on child labor.
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ReplyDeleteThis photo taken by Lewis Hine is of an eight year old boy named Michael Mcnelis. He titled it "The Sickly Newsie." This boy was a newsboy who had just recovered from his second time of having pneumonia. He is standing in the rain doing his job to support his family. I believe this photo represents the progressive era in showing how everyone was working to stay alive. Many children like Michael were out working much harder labor jobs. It shows the struggle of the immigrants and the sad attempt to stay alive in a country they thought they would find their dream in.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a picture of an impovershed blind woman with a sign hanging around her neck that says "blind". I'm not sure if Lewis Hine put that sign around her neck so that the audience was aware of the womans predicament, or if she had the sign made for herself. Either way, the decrepid condition this disabled woman is in reflects on the progressive eras renewed interest, through the photography of Lewis Hine, in the disenfranchised and poor of the American urban civilization.
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ReplyDeleteThis was one of Hines most famous photographs during this time, and can sum up a great amount during the time period. In the photographs is three kids smoking cigarettes, and obviously underage. Clearly, kids today would not be able to openly smoke like that because it is illegal. Kids were more like adults at this time, because they also had to work a great amount to raise money for their family.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture shows a young boy laboring in a factory. This depicts the progressive era by highlighting that many factories mainly employed young children and women. These laborers often worked 10 hour days for very little pay. The conditions were terrible and there were many accidents. Photos like these helped spur the movement to stop child labor, reduce working hours, and increase pay.