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Neil Power: 1913
... figure. "Hain't been to school much." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Stocking Feat This lad looks shy to be sure. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/09/2010 - 1:30am -

April 1913. Rome, Georgia. Neil Power, 10 years old. Said "turns stockings in Rome Hosiery Mill." A shy, pathetic figure. "Hain't been to school much." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Stocking FeatThis lad looks shy to be sure. Would love to know what he went on to do with his life. Maybe one day we will see a photo on Shorpy with Neil's feet propped up on his desk as President and CEO of the Rome Hosiery Mill. Hey, it might have happened!! A hard-knock lifeMy heart goes out to Neil -- he looks so forlorn. A ratty, filthy sweater full of holes. A hand-me-down belt barely big enough to stretch across his belly. Mud-splattered legs. No shoes. He hasn't even bothered to cinch his knickers at the knee. And he's 10 years old. Didn't his parents care? Was there no adult at work to help him? This is the side of capitalism that most of us pretend doesn't exist. Class DistinctionThe contrast between the photo of this shoeless, scruffy, unschooled young lad and the jaunty Palm Beach tennis players in the previous photo couldn't be more striking. Thank goodness we have managed to eliminate the gap between rich and poor in this country over the past 100 years. Lew HineA do-gooder, yes, but also kind of a snob. The other sideof the era. The "Dirty Job" if you will. He works at a stockings factory yet has none himself. Such a contrast from the privious picture of Palm Springs. One of the earliestLooks like a small fanny pack the lad is wearing. Probably supposed to be used for coins, which were most likely hard to come by for this boy. "Gap" between Rich and PoorI think if you went to right areas of this country, you would still find poverty like this. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it is not there. I would expect the Palm Springs people didn't know. Not PatheticI do not know why he was called pathetic. Someone can work a hard, rough job and be a good person and have a good life. Turns stockingsbut has none of his own to wear. Or, hain't got any of his own to wear. As they say in Georgia,"Well bless his heart." The word "pathetic" has a few different meanings, i.e. (1) evoking pity, (2) moving the feelings, (3) pertaining to or caused by feelings and (4) miserably inadequate. Neil Power may have fit the first three but I'm pretty sure he was not "miserably inadequate" because he did work, he earned bread and most likely helped support his family. Our current obsession with "self-esteem" seems to have turned us all into blithering idiots. I say this because I just read in yesterday's paper that kids in phys ed class in Massachusetts are jumping rope without ropes because it is feared that tripping over the rope or getting tangled in the rope will destroy a kid's self-esteem. I think I would prefer my 10 year old to work in a stocking factory than to learn to jump rope without a rope. (And now we will all pretend we are driving on the interstate -- first, imagine you are in a car ... ) The pouchI bet he kept his trusty foldin' knife in there. Only 97 years agoI showed this photo to my 4th grade students yesterday. I was amazed at the lack of appreciation for today's lifestyle. A majority felt Neil Power was "lucky" that he didn't have to go to school. Very few understood that he HAD to work instead of attending school. He is part of the luckiest generationHis circumstances may seem dire to the average modern young person, but at least he has not had every whim catered to since the day he was born giving him the overwhelming sense of entitlement and ultimate disappointment of today's youth. He probably has more self-reliance and resourcefulness than the average 25 year old of today. He will be too young for the Great War as it was called, but will reach young manhood during the prosperous, booming years of the Roaring 20's. He'll be able to find a job anywhere and marry a cute flapper. He'll have to negotiate the Depression, it's true, but he won't be alone either--my parents were his age and older and were never umemployed in the 30's. He'll be too old for WW II, but will again find employment looking for him. He'll reap the rewards of the great postwar prosperity while only in his late 40's and 50's and probably stay with the same employer until he retires with a pension and health insurance, all the while enjoying all the scientific advances that parallelled his lifetime--not a bad prospect at all. Today's young people should wish they had it so good. Spirit and image? Pardon, good sir, have you mayhaps seen my older brother Shorpy? (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Newsboys Club: 1909
... Room. Boys seated at tables playing games." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Or perhaps Carrom Considering the cue used on ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/08/2013 - 12:11pm -

October 1909. Boston, Mass. "In the Newsboys Reading Room. Boys seated at tables playing games." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Or perhaps CarromConsidering the cue used on the far right. Possibly PitchnutLooks similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchnut Reading RoomIronic title, for kids who, were they not working at such a young age, ought to be in school. Making it up as they goAlmost looks like a shuffleboard type of game, and the kid at the third table over is using a pool cue while the matronly lady looks on approvingly. Meanwhile the boy resting his head on his fist has the devil in his eyes. Take me out to the Disc GameIt looks like they're playing Carrom, which I've only come across in Asian countries before so it's interesting to see it being played in this context. It's a little like playing pool but with discs instead of balls and I've seen it played with both a finger-flick and with a cue, which seems to fit the evening's activities. It's a real betting game - but probably not here! [I'm not so sure about that -- gambling newsies were a staple of the Hine repertoire. - Dave] From newsboys to business menIf the 10 Somerset Street address mentioned by Stanton_Square is correct, the address currently is home to Suffolk University Business School, two blocks from the Massachusetts State House. 15 Howard Street, between Andrew and Dudley Squares, looks to be an abandoned building today. No video gamesA little reading, a lot of face-to-face interaction. Those were the days! If Scrabble had been invented and they were playing itYou can bet one of the words challenged was "wuxtry". (Scrabble came along in the 1930s.) Free Games and BathsA post at the Looking for Lewis W. Hine Photo Locales blog identifies the location of this photo as the Burroughs Newsboys Building at 10 Somerset Street. Earlier accounts report that the newsboys met on Howard Street. Bacon's Dictionary of Boston, 1886. Reading-room for Newsboys and Boot-blacks. 16 Howard Street. Open from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. A resort where books, papers, games, and regular entertainments are furnished. Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1902. Report of the Newsboys' Reading-Room Association on Howard Street showed the attendance to have been larger during 1900 than for some time past; average attendance per night was 140 boys; total expenses for the year 1900, $1,755; total receipts, $1,643. This association was formed in 1870, and serves as a reading-room for licensed newsboys. Entertainments, games, drawing classes, books and periodicals of all kinds, as well as bathing facilities, are offered the boys as inducements to join. Everything is free. I Remember CarromWe had a Carrom board growing up in Nebraska in the 60s. On one side was a checkerboard and backgammon triangles. The other side had the setup for playing Carrom. It came with a couple of wooden cuesticks and a bunch of colored plastic rings, plus instructions for several games. In the four corners of the board were net pockets, and we played a billiard sort of game most of the time. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
The Boys of Bridgeton: 1909
... in the middle is Harry Simpkins. The photograph is by Lewis Wickes Hine , who described the work conditions as, "dirty, noisome." November 1909. ... 
 
Posted by Ken - 07/24/2012 - 7:00pm -

Workers at the More-Jones Glass Co. in Bridgeton, N.J. Small boy in the middle is Harry Simpkins. The photograph is by Lewis Wickes Hine, who described the work conditions as, "dirty, noisome." November 1909. View full size. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Tom Polk: 1912
... works in Beaumont Mill. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Squinting for Hine Of course being dragged out of the dark mill ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 11:39am -

May 1912. Spartanburg, South Carolina. Tom Polk, "goin' on 13." Prematurely old, works in Beaumont Mill. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Squinting for HineOf course being dragged out of the dark mill and posed in the sunlight probably didn't help his expression either. Tom PolkBack when the men were men and so were the boys. I look at this and think about my 40-year-old co-worker complaining about how Barney's no longer sells his favorite mango-papaya anti-wrinkle eye cream. What is wrong with his mouth?Are his lips just extremely chapped? Actually looks like dried blood as it appears to be on his teeth also. [Beverage mustache. - Dave] (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Alley Cats: 1909
... late at night." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Hine photos This is the best photograph of his that I've seen so ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 12/10/2007 - 3:12pm -

March 1909. "Bowling alley boys of New Haven, Connecticut. Many of these work until late at night." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Hine photosThis is the best photograph of his that I've seen so far. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, Sports)
Clarence Noel: 1911
... View full size. (The Gallery, Factories, Kids, Lewis Hine) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2023 - 4:24pm -

September 1911. Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. "Clarence Noel, 138 Main Street, Indian Orchard. Doffer in Hodges Fibre Carpet Co. of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Said 'made seven dollars last week'." Clarence is in a number of other Indian Orchard photos here. View full size. (The Gallery, Factories, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Making Pansies: 1912
... domestic scene; to the eye (and lens) of social reformer Lewis Hine, however, it is a diorama of decadence and moral decay, with peril lurking ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 10:09am -

January 1912, New York City. View full size. To the untrained observer this might be a pleasant domestic scene; to the eye (and lens) of social reformer Lewis Hine, however, it is a diorama of decadence and moral decay, with peril lurking in every detail. The object of his ire here is the use of child labor in tenement home work, specifically the assembly of artificial flowers: "Julin, a 6-year-old child, making pansies for her neighbors on top floor (Gatto), 106 Thompson St. They said she does this every day, 'but not all day.' A growler and dirty beer glasses in the window, unwashed dishes on the stove, clothes everywhere, and flowers likewise." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. (NB: Growler = beer pitcher.) Pansy MakersThe glasses look clean and put away (upside down) to me. These people may have had it better than some in the garment industry did during this time. Hardly the drama being described. Foy Razor StropNotice the razor strop hanging on the widow frame ... You kids get to making posies or you get the strap. 21st Century Rent100 years later the rent on this apartment in West Soho, NYC is probably hovering around $2000 per month. That's a lot of paper pansies. [I visited the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side a few weeks ago and part of the exhibit is an actual tenement flat in a century-old building. And everyone's first reaction seemed to be "Wow, these are pretty nice!" Special notice taken of high ceilings, plank floors, interior windows, etc. - Dave] Is that a map on the wall?The old country? What was it? The MapThe map is of the Mediterranean, but the part in dark - presumably the focus of the family interest - is Italy and its newly acquired (in 1912 as a matter of fact) colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. In 1934 the two would be united as Libya. I hate to say it, but Hine sort of comes across as a sanctimonious complainer. He gives us a picture of these people but then complains about their cleanliness and their supposed drunkenness, at a time and circumstance where the safest thing to drink might have been the beer. (As for the razor strop near the window, the man undoubtedly shaved using a straight razor near the only dependable source of light in the whole place, the window.) Hine's MotivesOh I do agree that Hine was a propagandist for his cause, and that it was a good and noble cause. I guess that any problem I have is with his attitude in this case. The family in this photo (with little Julin, the neighbour girl) are almost made to seem like villains of the piece when in all likelihood they were being exploited almost as much as the child. It is doubtful that they were small entrepreneurs who paid the little girl a pittance and far more likely that they were piece-workers who were paid a pittance by a company. Child labour was and is an evil thing but the real blame didn't lie with these people who are being painted as the height of moral decay (a growler for beer, dirty dishes, clothes everywhere). Family TogethernessThe father is talking, they must be having a nice conversation, this almost seems like a nice family hobby. I know that in my home if myself, my wife and mother-in-law sat around the table chatting and making paper flowers, you can bet my two young boys would be begging us to let them make some. And in keeping with other comments as to conditions, I see clean laundry hung up to dry, some folded towels on the bureau, and roughly folded clothes on the chair. Let's face it, these guys didn't have Maytags. I also agree that Hines comes across as a crabby nit picker in his narrative here. Re: Family TogethernessYou have to remember that Lewis Hine had a goal (ending child labor) and an audience he was trying to sway to achieve it (members of Congress, who would see these photos as part of the report of the National Child Labor Committee). So he may have painted things as being bleaker than most people might feel is warranted. Also note that little Julin is not part of this family; she's a neighbor child. We don't know if she was being paid to help out. GrowlerGlad I read the whole thing. In Yorkshire, UK, Growler = Pork Pie. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, NYC)
Powerhouse: 1921
... "Powerhouse Mechanic and Steam Pump" (1921). One of Lewis Wickes Hine's celebrated "work portraits" made after his decade-long project ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/06/2021 - 10:01am -

      On this Labor Day 2021, Shorpy wishes everyone a meaningful and at least momentary break from toil. "Powerhouse Mechanic and Steam Pump" (1921). One of Lewis Wickes Hine's celebrated "work portraits" made after his decade-long project documenting child labor. View full size. IconThat has got to be one of the iconic pictures of the 20th century. Re: Icon> That has got to be one of the iconic pictures of the 20th century. ...staged like so many of them. [It's not "staged," it's posed. Which is how art photography works. No different from painting, sculpture or any other representational form. This is why it's called a portrait. - Dave] Listening to "Powerhouse"While looking at a picture titled "Powerhouse" what could be more appropriate that listening to Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse." http://raymondscott.com/Powerhse.wav Nice Image.I think Chaplin in "Modern Times" and Fritz Lang in "Metropolis" must have been inspired by this photo. Steamfitter?I did a project on this photograph in grade 12 photography. I was actually expecting it to appear on Shorpy.com eventually, seeing how it's such an iconic piece. It was called Steamfitter when we did the project, do you know if both titles are used interchangeably? This was the picture that got me interested in Lewis Wickes Hine's photography. Thanks for posting it! Express YourselfLooks like something from the Madonna "Express Yourself" music video... Ooops. I just dated myself.. :-) SteamfitterThis picture is brilliant, and I've often thought that this guy looks like a model. If he was less attractive would it hold appeal? CheersThree cheers to Dave for his note about art and portraiture. Strong imageAs if the worker was blended with the machine. RushThe rock group Rush used this picture in some of their art work on their Snakes & Arrows Audio DVD. There were some mods to the picture but the main part of it was this image. "Blended""As if the worker was blended with the machine." - Anonymous Tipster, Tue, 07/22/08 Indeed. But is the relationship symbiotic, or parasitic -- and if the latter, which is the parasite and which the host? Extra credit: Do you think your answer to that question might have been different if Keanu Reeves and/or the Wachowski Bros had never existed? He looks like Amazing! but he looks like Buster Crabbe! Powerhouse Some years ago (decades actually) I had the good fortune to work with Ray Scott on a number of different projects. Mostly he'd invent and I'd build. He was utterly brilliant and constantly creating things. Bright idea-sparks seemed to fly from him. We were speaking about composition and the origins of how music is "made" - he told me that the basic ostinato theme for "Powerhouse" came from a peek inside the large open doors of one of ConEd's steam-electric plants in New York in the 30s. He said: "I was just knocked out by the rhythm and sounds those three big engines were making. And they stayed in sync with each other for quite a long time. Immediately I heard the tune in my head, and I practically ran to my office to write it down!" Hanging in a frame on the wall of my studio is a signed copy of the sheet music he gave me - one of my 'treasured things'. Pleasant Labor Day to all here at Shorpy - especially Dave and tterrace whose Labors we enjoy. Posing is also workHine let his working people look like they were posing, which is the work they were doing at that particular moment. It's one reason why his photos are art as well as documents. Correct WrenchDoes it not seem a bit large for the nut? Correct wrenchIt is the angle at which the wrench is being held that makes it seem too large. The ends of the wrench are on the nut, but the back part is closer too the camera, so looks larger. If it were flat, it would be clear that if fit. RE: Correct WrenchThat caught my eye, too: especially since there's no way it can turn clockwise without fouling the bolt head above it. But I suspect they needed a loose fit around the nut so the wrench could be held at an compositionally satisfying angle. You know a photo is famousWhen it's copied in another medium. Grandpa was the draftsmanMy grandfather was the draftsman to Edward Gray who designed the Highland Park "Gas-Steam" 6,000 hp engines. One was saved, the first item placed in the Henry Ford Museum. Massive and declared the largest engine in the world at that time. Artist's rendition of the nine 'gas-steam', one 'gas only 5,000hp' and also shows the very first 1500hp engine built at Riverside Engine in Oil City, Pennsylvania, where my grandfather first worked for Edward Gray starting in 1906. The two moved to Highland Park late 1909, as the Highland Park plant was being built. Chaplin's take fifteen years laterHine's photo clearly influenced (though perhaps indirectly) Charlie Chaplin's iconic imagery in 'Modern Times'. Momentary breakWell here I am working 12 hour shifts Sat-Sun-Mon, but taking a "momentary break from the toil" to post this comment. Thanks for the well-wishes Dave, and a Happy Labor Day to all! (The Gallery, Handsome Rakes, Lewis Hine)
Our Baby Doffer: 1910
... 'He can't work unless he's twelve'." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size. (The ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/01/2023 - 12:56pm -

November 1910. "Birmingham, Alabama. 'Our baby doffer,' they called him. Donnie Cole. Has been doffing for some months. When asked his age, he hesitated, then said, 'I'm twelve.' Another young boy said, 'He can't work unless he's twelve'." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size. (The Gallery, Birmingham, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Window Dressing: 1941
... We've come a far piece in our quest for comfort. Lewis Wickes Hine According to Wikipedia Hine died Nov. 1940 - so I wonder if this ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/07/2013 - 11:40am -

October 1941. "Dressing window in Amsterdam, New York." The art of auto parts and accessories. Photo by John Collier. View full size. Rubber fan bladesMy 1947 KB-1 pickup had one of those fans mounted on the dash. It had rubber blades but no cage around them. Better buy those tireswhile you can get them. Rationing is on the way. I wish I had a set with those "pie-crust" sidewalls for my '48 pickup. You WantMe to put what where!? HeatersI wonder if the two objects with the semicircle doors are aftermarket heaters. It's hard to imagine a car that doesn't come with a heater, but those were different times. Montgomery WardMy hometown Wards was on East Main St., downtown Amsterdam. A one time successful department store and at its height, was one of the largest retailers in the United States. Now just an online retailer with no physical stores. Here is a photo of the large bygone Wards in Menands near Albany, NY (just 30 miles east of Amsterdam) which is now office space. Dresser's dressingThere's an old stereotype of window dressers as swells and dandies, but somehow I don't think the plaid-shirt-and-tweed-slacks combination qualifies. Not just for old menI take it wingtips were the rage in 1941. Both guys are wearing them, despite their difference in age. Heaters!nixiebunny, you are correct. Another popular brand was HaDees with a long a sound. Great name for a heater I think! The model I found isn't exact, but it's close. ShoesLike the gentlemen here my dad always wore wingtips and I still wear them today. Yes most of the stores still sell them and I have never had a problem getting them even at Wal-Mart. Tire RationingA couple of months hence, and I doubt this window display would have featured tires on sale, as tires began to be rationed on December 30, 1941. Good ol' Monkey-WardSears' chief rival for many years, Montgomery Ward competed in both catalogue and brick-and-mortar retailing, though insofar as I know, they never sold cars -- Sears sold a Henry J badged as an Allstate in the early '50s, and buggy cars in the early years of the 20th Century. Alas, now reposing in that commercial Valhalla wherein Grant's, Woolworth's and many others must abide. Speaker-shaped itemsWhat are the two items flanking the guy in the window? They look like some sort of turntable but they're on their sides. [After-market heaters. See earlier comment. -tterrace] A different world, indeed.Tire repair kits? Little fans? Huge 6-volt batteries? Whoa! This was modern technologyLooking at those huge spark plugs, I wonder how much they sold for. When I tune a vehicle, the correct spark plugs (platinum or iridium) sell for $20.00 each. HEMI engines take 16 spark plugs, and they need to be replaced every 30000 miles. These are copper core plugs, must cheaper, but 16 times $4.00 is still a lot. These monster plugs were probably cleaned and gapped every 10000 miles, extending their life several times. This was in the day when you accepted that old Bessie won't start on the first try. You might have to wedge a stick in the choke to correct a flooded engine. Valve jobs every 20000 miles were the norm. Service work on vehicles today is more expensive, but telling these two gentlemen that they will be able to buy a car that will last over 200000 miles without a valve job or major engine rebuild would have them laughing you out the door. Airy on the left and rightThose rubber blade fans to clear (maybe) moisture from the windshield. One kind had a clamp to attach around the steering post, or if you wanted real "action" drill a couple holes on the dashboard (steel) and fasten it closer to the windshield. RE: heaters. In 1947, my Grand Father bought a new Chevy pick-up, the first sold in our town after WW2. He paid extra for a heater to be installed, since it was not standard equipment. We've come a far piece in our quest for comfort. Lewis Wickes HineAccording to Wikipedia Hine died Nov. 1940 - so I wonder if this picture was taken earlier or by someone else. Changing fashionsBy 1942 plaid was out and olive drab was in. Air ConditioningIn my 1931 Cadillac. Didn't really help much on the track at Bristol. Mostly just blocked the view of those tight turns. Maybe if I'd had the good four-bladed one from Monkey Ward's. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, John Collier, Stores & Markets)
10-17-2007 Hine
... start the day with a selection of working kids snapped by Lewis Hine, whose photographs, 100 years after they were taken, seem to exist in ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/17/2007 - 7:39pm
143 Hudson Street: 1911
... dark inner bedroom (three yrs. old)." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. re: Paper Things I think they're Victorian ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 6:17pm -

New York, December 1911. "143 Hudson Street, ground floor. Mrs. Salvia; Joe, 10 years old; Josephine, 14 years old; Camille, 7 years old. Picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag of cracked nuts (on chair) had been standing open all day waiting for the children to get home from school. The mangy cat (under table) roamed about over everything. Baby is sleeping in the dark inner bedroom (three yrs. old)." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. re: Paper ThingsI think they're Victorian Christmas tree decorations which are usually filled with nuts or candy. I would guess that the family is shelling walnuts to put into the paper containers (cone and slit-sided). 143 Hudson Street:This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I found the sons of Joe and Camille last year and interviewed both of them. This is quite a story, but I haven't posted it on my website yet. This tenement burned down a few years later, and the family lost everything, including their family pictures. When I sent the Hine photo to Joe's son, he was very excited, because it was the first photo he had seen of his father as a boy, his grandmother at a younger age, and the inside of the tenement where they lived. Joe became a New York City policeman and moved to California when he retired. Camille married and had a long and successful life. The story will be posted on my site some time this year. www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/lewishine.html ExaggerationHines sure likes to breathe fire into every scene. Place doesn't look dirty to me -- just messy, like any kitchen where work is being done. Cat doesn't look mangy and cats always roam all over everything. All seem to have shoes (a good sign in those days). So, the nut bag was open all day -- so what. They have protective shells. Hines certainly did an admirable job of depicting poverty but I don't think this is one of those times based solely on the photo. They all look pretty happy to me. [Hine's motive, as we have pointed out many times, was the elimination of child labor. So his captions, which accompanied these photos in the National Child Labor Committee's report to Congress, tended to paint as bleak a picture as possible. As for the cat, his point was that fur, fleas etc. could have gotten into the nuts, which were already cracked and would go back to the wholesaler to be sold to the public after the kids had removed the shells. Communicable disease and adulteration or contamination of foodstuffs and fabric were among the health issues attached to tenement homework. - Dave] The CatSorry, but I must once again take exception to Mr. Hine's description, even though I know his intentions. The family looks happy, and I would hardly describe the apartment as "dirty." My 3 cats "roam about over everything," as all cats are wont to do, and this one is no more mangy than I am. Cats really have a bad rap, considering they are one of the cleanest creatures on earth AND they keep vermin populations down. [His point was that cat hair, fleas etc. could have gotten into the nuts, which were already cracked and would be sold at market after they were hulled. - Dave] Judgy?The caption seems a big judgmental to me...the place may be a bit messy but it's not as bad as the caption says is it? They all seem to be happy. The furniture looks pretty nice. Josh Radio?Anyone know what the "thing" is hanging on the wall next to the calendar? Looks like a box of some sort. [It's a gas meter. There was no radio in 1911. - Dave] Nut PickersIt doesn't look that horrible, at least they're smiling. The way Hine describes this scene, he would have had a stroke seeing the people in the Elm Grove picture. The WallsIn this photo and in a lot of other photos of tenements, there always seems to be a lot of pictures hanging on the walls. I've always wondered why this is. Also in this photo the wallpaper is unusual. Can anyone make out what the pattern is? Items on lineThere's a line/cord running from the doorway to the gas meter and it has items hanging from it. Can anyone tell what they are? The look like little paper lanterns to me. Christmas ornaments perhaps? [Are they papillotes? Those paper cutlet frills you'd put on the bones of a crown roast. Maybe another branch of this family's cottage industry. - Dave] Paper thingsI don't know about the slit-sided ones (can't tell for sure if they have a bottom or liner in them) but to this day you can buy nuts at Christmas in those cone-shaped bags like that, so maybe they are all nut-containers of some kind. Shell GameFrom their smiles, it does appear they are trying to make a game of this tedious task. That looks like a sewing machine at far right. If so, it would seem Mrs. Salvia could earn more by stitching piece goods for the garment industry than shelling nuts. But maybe not. I don't think any of the home workers earned much, whatever the task. [According to Lewis Hine's notes, "nut-picking" brought in about $4 a week. - Dave] Nuts to DollarsOut of curiosity, I went to a dollar buying power historic conversion site. According to their calcs, one dollar in 1911 would equate to $23.64 in today's economy. So, their nut enterprise would garner the equivalent of something like $88 per week now. The thing on the wallIn the tenements, each apartment had a gas meter installed on the interior wall. If you wanted gas, you put money in the slot like a vending machine, and you could run your stove, lamps, what have you till the money ran out. TB WindowThose windows commonly seen in old tenement photos like these were called "Tuberculosis Windows". The idea behind them was to facilitate air circulation in those stuffy tenements, thus helping to alleviate the TB that was rampant at the time. 143 Hudson StreetThis is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. The link to my story of this family has been changed. It is now: http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2014/11/26/camille-and-joseph-salvia-pa... (The Gallery, Kids, Kitchens etc., Lewis Hine, NYC)
The Shining: 1908
... it before it closes. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. How about a double exposure? ....since there's no streaks to ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 12/19/2015 - 12:27pm -

August 1908. "Greek bootblack in Indianapolis." An interesting example of a time exposure where the subject either enters the frame after the shutter opens or leaves it before it closes. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. How about a double exposure?....since there's no streaks to indicate the kid coming or going. Single exposure with flashHere I've recreated the effect in my hotel room. This was a 5 second exposure with the flash firing at the start of the exposure. After the flash fired I immediately stepped into the bathroom. I vote doubleIf the exposure time had been long enough for him to walk on or off he would have had to stay VERY still while he was posing to not be blurred. Since he looks quite sharp I think it was two fairly short exposures rather than one long one. Single ExposureI agree with Ken. The reason there's no blur is that a flash was used. With the shutter open, the kid takes his place, Hine sets off a charge of magnesium flash powder, then the glass plate is removed from the camera. This is how he seems to have taken most of his night shots. In this instance there was enough ambient light to register the background on the plate, an artifact we can see in other Hine photos taken at night. re: How about a double exposure?It is more likely a very long exposure where the boy stood still through most of it and then walked off. You can try the same thing at your house with a long exposure. Simply sit still for most of the exposure and then get up and walk off. You won't see any streaks, just a ghost. Location of the parlorI found a copy of the 1909 Indianapolis City Directory and located "Papatheofines Chris" at 108 1/2 E Washington St., under the heading of 'Shoe Shining Parlors.' Today that address (to right of the corner building which has flag on top and ATO frat headquarters below) is occupied by luxury condos, in a building that started out (or at least was at the earliest of my memory) the Morris Plan Savings and Loan company. This structure most certainly was build well after the one in the Shorpy photo as it was in a modern 50/60's style. This is the NE corner of Washington and Pennsylvania streets. (The Gallery, Indianapolis, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Shorpy and His Friends
... Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Entire uncropped image . Crop Can I ask why you cropped the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/28/2019 - 3:00pm -

December 1910. "Shorpy Higginbotham, an oiler on the tipple at Bessie Mine" -- near Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Entire uncropped image. CropCan I ask why you cropped the photo? CropTo make Shorpy stand out more. shorpy's armsNotice how even in the photos where he's not carrying buckets his arms are permanently out away from his body? How sad for those kids back then. But sadder today that kids have gone so far the other direction that they consider setting the table & cleaning their rooms a form of child abuse!! Oiler? or Oilee.Sure looks like he got more oil on him than on or in the equipment. Good quality on the resolution. Shorpy's PosseThe crop looks good. The other boys look like Shorpy's posse, and Shorpy is the greasiest of them all. [The white kid on the far right is Dave, also pictured here. - Other Dave] ShorpyThey all look set with grim determination. It's a character asset that not many of today's youth share. Considering what people went through back then I would wonder if it's even appropriate to call them "kids". Pictures like this really make me consider that ... Thanks for posting these! CapsThanks for that. CapsAny idea what the cards or ?? are on the front of the caps? [Lamp holders - Dave] Miners' capsThose are lamp holders. https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/01076u.jpg CarltonYour site is perfect! [Aw shucks. You are most perceptive! - Dave] AwesomeI found your site via Thomas Hawk's blog and I love it. This one is my favorite photo of Shorpy. [Thanks! And thanks to Thomas Hawk. - Dave] What an amazing site.And what an amazing bunch of young fellows. Fate and time . . .We sons of coal miners can only reflect on what might have been if born a 100 years ago. Now I know why my parents were stalwart Democrats . . : >) Shorpy's ArmsI don't think his arms are "permanently out away from his body." I think that the thing he's counterbalancing the weight of that thing he's holding. His arms do look weird though. ShorpyWhat is he holding? [An oil can. - Dave] He Cannot Tell a LieBefore reading "What We Think We Know" about Shorpy, I assumed, from Hine's caption, that Shorpy was younger than 14, and lying in order to work. But he was born in 1896, so at the time of this picture he WAS 14! I am very glad to know that Shorpy was telling the truth. Happy Birthday!Today is Shorpy's birthday! 112 years old today! Happy birthday! [OMG. Thank you for remembering! And Happy Birthday, Shorp! - Dave] Records of the PastI love this quote by Lewis Hine: "Perhaps you are weary of child labor pictures. Well, so are the rest of us, but we propose to make you and the whole country so sick and tired of the whole business that when the time for action comes, child labor pictures will be records of the past." Which is what his pictures ended up being. [I wonder if he'd be surprised at all he accomplished. - Dave] It's that time of year again...Shorpy's birthday is today! Happy 113th birthday, Shorpy! I have never seen thisI have never seen this picture by Hine. This is brilliant, everything about this picture just captures me! The look of pure disgust and determination on the boys faces just kills me! There is something about the way the way Hine decided the capture them in this triangular formation with the point coming at the viewer. The dirt and grime that covers the boys as well adds another dimension to the work. The position and the way Shorpy is holding his harms along with his gang of followers behind him make it seem as if they are going to come out of the picture and attack. They are ready for anything that anyone throws at them, on moment away from strike! Once again this is fabulous! Happy birthday ShorpyGlad to know about Shorpy, this worked kid, who served to his nation at the First War World, today in his birthday I give my sincere greetings to him. [Thank you very much! - Dave] (The Gallery, Birmingham, Lewis Hine, Mining)
Brooklyn Pin Boys: 1910
... by Boss." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. notice the gas lights notice the gas lights Slave Driver ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/08/2011 - 6:37pm -

April 1910. "1 a.m. Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., every night. Three smaller boys were kept out of the photo by Boss." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. notice the gas lightsnotice the gas lights Slave DriverNot only did he hide all the nine year old kids when he saw the photographer, but I'll bet he also made sure his whip wasn't visible either. muralI like the hint of the sailing mural on the back wall.Touch of class. Bogotá 2006Reminds me of a bowling hall I visited in downtown Bogotá last year - pin boys and a musty basement smell my dad was a pin boy. :]my dad was a pin boy. :] Is that.......the dude from "Deadwood"? The boss looks like......Al Swearengen from Deadwood Pin Boy (Retired)I'm 78 now. I used to be a pin boy, part time nights in Hartford, Ct. from 1944 to 1947. The pay was much better than working on the tobacco farms after school. man that job must haveman that job must have sucked did anyone ever throw the ball b4 u were done setting them?? Patrons intentionally bowling before pins were set.It happened routinely, especially later at night when the patrons were inebriated. However, you could usually expect a better tip from the drunk bowlers, especially if you would "help them along" by discreetly knocking over a few extra pins. We would occasionally taunt them and quickly jump over the safety wall as the ball was approaching. One of only a handful remaining, there is still a public manual alley in Shohola, PA at Rohman's Hotel, It is cheap (1$ per frame) if you set your own pins or bring you own pin boy, (or girl). http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/05-07-14/LR-wanda.html 73, Tom Good ole daysI worked lanes like these in the basement of a school attached to our church in Illinois. First time I ever saw a cork ball. And yes, they have thrown the ball down the lane before you had all pins set up, you just had to be quick enough to jump out of the way. Then & NowPeople think they have it ruff now. Nice photo. Got paid a nickel a line.I was a pinboy at age 12 in New Jersey in the fifties. Eight alleys no air conditioning, no breaks, no dental plan. But with tips you made a couple of bucks a night. Enough for a movie, comic books, a coke, and a pack of smokes. Today most folks have to work 8 hours to get all that stuff. My First JobMy first job was as a pinboy at our local country club in New Jersey. Seven cents a game plus tips. I lasted about 4 hours. ChicagoStill have pinboys in Chicago at Southports Lanes on the northside. Former Pin BoyMy husband was a pin boy in 1953 at the Yonkers Jewish Center. He said your picture is exactly the way it was. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, NYC, Sports)
Working Boys: 1910
... before 1 p.m. Photo at 12:30." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Re: Why they're smiling It's because they ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 1:40pm -

May 17, 1910. Alton, Illinois, "Noon hour. These boys are all working in the Illinois Glass Company. Smallest boy, Frank Dwyer, 1009½ E. Sixth Street, says he has been working here three months. Joe Dwyer (brother) has been working here over two years. Henry Maul, 513 Central Avenue. Frank Schenk, lives with uncle, 611 Central Avenue. Emil Ohley, 1012 E. Sixth Street. William Jarett, 825 E. Fifth Street. Fred Metz, 707 Bloomfield Street. In addition to their telling me they worked, I saw them beginning work just before 1 p.m. Photo at 12:30." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Re: Why they're smilingIt's because they have jobs! What did he say?This is the smilingist group of workers that I have seen on Shorpy. The photographer must have instigated this playfulness. [That Lewis Hine was a notorious cutup. - Dave] Why they're smilingThey realize it's only three and a half months away, and they're expressing their appreciation to Canadians for inventing Labor Day. Not Following the Narrative"Noon hour. These boys are all working in the Illinois Glass Company. All refused to scowl, frown and look exploited, even after being told they were 'child laborers.'" I wonderhow many of them went off to WW2. [Probably zero, seeing as how they'd all be at least 40 years old. - Dave] Unemployed TipsterYou got that right! Both my husband and I got laid off and he is JUST now starting a new job, but having a job is a reason to smile! Darn economy!!! That Ol' Gang O' MineI love the "smooshed hat" kid and the kid doing the smooshing. Plus, the one on the far left next to the old fellow has a face for the cover of an oatmeal box or some such commercial advertisement. Working boys in Alton: 1910This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. The boy on the left in the front row was Frank Dwyer. The third boy from the left was his brother Joseph. I just interviewed his daughter. The cute little boy near the middle with his right leg crossed in front of his left leg was Henry "Happy" Maul. I just located his daughter, and will be calling her today. More on this later. Skinny, Flunkie, and Happy, Alton, Illinois, 1910This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I have posted my stories about three boys in this photo: Joseph & Frank Dwyer, and Henry Maul. I interviewed the daughters of both Joseph and Henry. Joseph was called "Skinny," Frank was called "Flunkie," and Henry was called "Happy." See the stories at: http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2015/01/18/joseph-and-frank-dwyer-henry... (The Gallery, Factories, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Indiana Janes: 1908
... Clopper." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Satisfied? As another commenter mentioned, here's another Lewis ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 12:12pm -

August 1908. "Noon hour in an Indianapolis cotton mill. Witness, E.N. Clopper." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Satisfied?As another commenter mentioned, here's another Lewis Hine photo where the subjects are not glaring angrily at the photographer. Could it be that the workers were actually satisfied with their worksite? That doesn't fit in well with Hine's agenda that workers were abused by their employer. So, Hine could be balanced in the way he shows his subjects. BTW, it looks like one could get pretty dirty working in a cotton mill (in Indianapolis, of all places!). Surprising, but what do I know. Probably a FridayThey're Hoosiers. It's probably a Friday. Payday. Basketball game this evening. Life is good. IndianapolisIndianapolis didn't get the nickname "Crossroads of America" for nothing. It was a good halfway point between Chicago & Cincinnati, and lots of other places. So it's not surprising to me that cotton would be shipped here for working. Mill GirlsMy great-grandmother worked in a Virginia cotton mill as a teenager in the 1910s. In 1975 I interviewed her as part of my graduate thesis. One thing she kept repeating was what a "wonderful" job it was, and how "blessed" she was to be able to work there. When I asked about workplace conditions she said the only "workplace" the girls had before that was in the fields. "Crawling though [poop]." Maybe that's why they all look so happy. Indiana Janes: 1908Hine didn't create those awful working conditions to fit his "agenda," he took the pictures to point out the awful working conditions. Perhaps these people are smiling because it's what's expected when someone points a camera at you, especially as this might be the only photograph that would be taken of you. [ Conditions were not "awful." No one was making these girls work here. Lewis Hine took these pictures because that's what he was paid to do. His goal was ending child labor, not the employment of people these girls' age. - Dave] South Carolina cotton millsI worked in 2 cotton mills in Greenville, SC in the 1970's. I worked pretty much every job in the Draper and Sulzer weave rooms. This was past the era when the mills built mill villages with houses, schools,baseball fields, and gyms for the employees but the people I worked with were happy, hard working people who liked their jobs. The biggest problem was the lack of a good retirement plan in the mills but then the employees were expected to plan and be prepared for their own retirement. I look back on my experience as a good one overall. The mill employees were like an extended family and took care of each other. Who?I would love to know who these women and girls are. I have lived in Indianapolis my whole life, and have a lot of family history here. (The Gallery, Factories, Indianapolis, Lewis Hine)
Skeeters Branch Newsies: 1910
... Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Album art This image was used on the album ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/05/2016 - 11:44pm -

11 a.m. Monday, May 9, 1910. "Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Album artThis image was used on the album "Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone" by The Walkmen. Just in case anyone finds this interesting. Great images btw! md [Yes, Shorpy finds this very interesting. Thanks! - Dave] Wow!These boys were cool, when this expression wouldn't have been used for anything else but temperature... Could that be Papa Muzevich?Gee, one of these kids could be my relatives. My Grandmother grew up on Franklin Avenue in St. Louis. And yes...the proclivity for smoking continues in the gene line...sigh. Great site. History repeats itself100 years later and we STILL haven't learned that smoking KILLS! BTW - These kids don't even look like they're past 10 years old! Also a book cover?I think this image was also used as the book cover image for a book about how "teenager" came to be a cultural category. Alas, I forget the name of the book and the author... He Looks 40That middle kid looks closer to 40 than to 10. I guess hard living and squinting through smoke will do that for you. Songstress Sade tells us: "The secret of their fear and their suspicion Standing there looking like an angel In his brown shoes, his short suit His white shirt and his cuffs a little frayed" My Kid BrotherThis picture was a real eye opener. The kid in the middle is a dead ringer for my kid brother Kevin...right down to the cigarette, the cocked head, the smirk and looking thru the smoke. Wow what a shock it was to run accross this. Wait till Mom finds out!!! Skeeters Branch Newsies: 1910This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I have identified the boy in the middle. I interviewed his niece today, and will let Shorpy know when my story is posted. The boy died in 1964 at the age of 67. For many years, he was a streetcar conductor. Skeeter's Branch Newsies: 1910This is Joe Manning again. I have completed my story of Raymond Klose, who was the boy in the middle of the picture. http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2015/01/01/raymond-klose/ A fast crowdThough this appears shocking to us today, kids like these grew up real fast. My father drove a Model T at 11 years old. The 3 Bruisers Meet Moe, Larry & Burly. Thanks Shorpy!Thanks for moving this entry up so we didn't miss Joe Manning's update. I always enjoy and find his research very interesting. Got the printOrdered this in 11x17-ish size, hangs in my guest bathroom. I highly recommend ordering prints from Shorpy. Top quality, fast delivery, friendly service. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, St. Louis)
Not Pictured: Hector DuBois
... that exists today. (The Gallery, Factories, Kids, Lewis Hine) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/27/2012 - 9:33am -

Group in front of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Everyone in photo was working there. Boy not photographed: Hector Dubois, 24 Water St., doffer who crushed finger in pump. Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. September 1911. View full size. What a group!I bet there were some characters in this group! Is anyone over 5 feet tall? smokersa plenty in that group. Taller derby hats (about six seen here)In those day used to identify the jobs held; such as bookkeepers, secretarys, etc. I've noticed, in looking at many older photos that some temporary workers wore the hats that identified their 'other work'. AffectionI notice in these old photos so many indications frankly of affection--arms around each other's shoulders, even holding hands--that one would never see in young men of their age today. I don't believe there is any "gay" element to it--people just had a different perspective on interpersonal relationships in those days. It was a camaradarie among peers instead of the competition that exists today. (The Gallery, Factories, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Harry Swope: 1908
... for a News & Stationery company." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Thank you I too visit this site almost daily. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/16/2010 - 2:38am -

August 1908. "An Enforced Rest. Harry Swope, aged 15, 426 Elm Street, Newport, Kentucky. Carrying heavy bundles of paper for a News & Stationery company." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Thank youI too visit this site almost daily. When out of town, I always look forward to seeing what's new at Shorpy when I get back home. Thank you for the many hours of entertainment I have enjoyed here. Birthday wishes!That Shorpy have a long and happy life on the internet. Thank you for all your work. I look forward to the variety of splendid images, full of the rich details of lives lived and experiences past. Three CandlesAt 10:49 tonight Eastern time, Shorpy (the website, not the person) will be exactly 3 years old! Happy Valentine's Day to all. Happy B'day Shorpy!Well done to Dave and all at Shorpy, fantastic job you do. The most educational, enlightening and entertaining site on the net. Happy Birthday!... and thanks for all the fun. Felicitations!May this site outlive all of us. And another thanks to Dave for running it so well; and to other contributors and tipsters, anonymous or not. Happy birthday Shorpy!Happy birthday, Shorpy The Site, from one three-year-old to another! [Awww. - Dave] In the Wire Work Window... a wabbit! Happy Birthday and THANK YOU!Thank you for providing such a wonderful website. I really enjoy "going back in time" through some of the best pictures posted on the web. All the Best Shorpy!As far as I am concerned I have had the privilege of seeing all the best -- right here. "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you" etc. Shorpy BirthdayHappy 3rd, Dave. I'm a daily visitor and never leave unhappy. We haven't, however, seen Marilyn lately ... but don't take me too seriously. Sincere best wishes and keep it coming. Shouldn't it be "one hundred and three"?Thanks. You've changed my view of my parents' and grandparents' world. You've brought it alive for me. Join me in a toast.I will hoist my tankard at 10:49 and say happy birthday Shorpy with thanks to Dave. Keep Up The Good WorkHappy Valentine's Day to all of the Shorpy Staff, my compatriot readers and commenters and the ghosts of the smiling Harry Swope and the frowning Lewis Wickes Hine. That one giant step..for lucidity. Thanks Dave for holding our feet to the fire when we post to Shorpy.(feel free to edit,you usually do). Part-tay!Shouldn't we have one? Any excuse for cake and noisemakers! Happy Birthday, Shorpy! Thanks to all who have made this one of my favorite places to spend time. Thanks for the MemoriesShorpy has made my retirement that much richer. Thanks, Dave and thanks all you commenters. Two ThoughtsHappy 3rd birthday to Shorpy and young Harry sure has big feet. Through the Wayback MachineA peek at the past - http://web.archive.org/web/20070221050736/https://www.shorpy.com/ Thanks for the hard work and excellent captions. Happy 3rd Thanks Dave for all your hard work and for giving us a nice place to visit. Happy Birthday Shorpy!Thanks for three years of wonderful photos and opportunities to learn about people and places of our past. And thank you Dave, for keeping it worth coming back to again and again! Woohoo!It's been an enjoyable 3 years and hope that there's many more. Cheers!For the completion of 1,578,240 minutes of delightful entertainment and enlightenment. High fives and many thanks for generously sharing your labor of love. Hot Dog!One last delivery to old man Potter. Happy BDay, Shorpy. Keep them coming. Make a WishHappy Birthday and thanks! Happy Birthentines Day!This website is wonderful, and fun to check each day. Thanks for all the work you do! A Happy Third Birthday - With Many More To ComeThere really is "Always Something Interesting" on Shorpy's. Viewing many of the high quality photographs on Shorpy's is like actually looking back through time. Keep up the excellent work. Oh, the comments that don't get posted!Nice try, Dave, but the 400 block of Elm St. in Newport is non-commercial, residential, detached, single-family housing, and the houses there even today well predate the 1908 date on this photo. At first I thought I was wrong with my previous (unpublished) comment, but there's no way this photo was taken at 426 Elm Street in Newport. There's no commercial architecture there now, and never has been, seeing as all the houses there now are mid 19th. c. shotguns with aluminum siding tacked on. [Hello? Try reading that caption again. 426 Elm in Newport is where Harry lives, not where the photo was taken. - Dave] Bravo and Thank you!!Dave, Happy Birthday to Shorpy.com! This is a great time to say how much I Thank You. When I look at the photo that you posted of our buildings, and study the super-sized print we got from you, I live in 1933 for a time; I visit Tom's Lunch. The print was in the storefront window of subject building for a while and drew and held nearly every passerby- homeless to bank exec.- who would look, and look up, and then look again... and laugh with the joy of discovery. Thanks for that and every other treasure you bring to light. [You're very welcome. Last year Lisa kindly took an hour out of her busy day to give me a tour of the "Tom's Lunch" building, which she owns and was renovating. Someday I will get around to posting the photos! - Dave] Swope & ShorpyHarry Swope's a fine-looking lad, and Shorpy's the finest site on the 'net. Happy 3rd birthday! I echo....all the sentiments here! Over the past 84 some odd weeks (since stumbling onto Shorpy) this site has become my favorite spot on the web. I can gaze for hours in amazement at the detail in the photographs and day dream about times past. Thanks Dave. Happy 3rd and many more!Thanks for the memories and hours and hours of entertainment and education, not necessarily in that order. Henry SwopePushing the limits of my free ancestry.com account, he was still alive as of the 1930 census, married to a Rose and still living in or near Newport, KY. I feel a certain kinship to Harry, as we were both cursed to have that cowlick. Oh and Happy birthday, Shorpy! Happy 3rdThanks, Dave! This is the first place I go to when I turn on the computer. Happy Birthday"Always something interesting" Can't say better! I'm here every day looking for the new photos. Happy birthday, Shorpy! Thank you, DaveShorpy is my hopeless addiction. I take breaks from my work several times a day to come here and prowl through your pages. The photos are so arresting, and I've learned a great deal from them, and from your well educated, well informed visitors. Happy birthday to Shorpys! Thank you Dave for a great site. I discovered this site two years ago. I am addicted to it now and I check every day or several times (according to how busy work is) to see what is posted next. Thanks for helping me get thru the every day grind. I look forward to my Shorpy fix every day. Jon Thanks Dave!Thanks Dave, for making Shorpy.com such a nice, genteel place to visit. This place is the next best thing to having a time machine. [Thank you, and thanks everyone else. Also thanks to Shorpy co-founder Ken, who manages all things financial having to do with the website, as well as many other aspects of its operation. - Dave] Never, never go away...A day without Shorpy is a day without sunshine. Many thanks and endless gratitude for the fascinating photos, brilliant commentary, re-awakening memories of the past and just giving us something worthwhile to look at and think about. Happy birthday Shorpy, all of us appreciate the time and hard work that goes into this pleasure for your viewers. Thanks to everyone at Shorpy, God bless us, every one. SingularSHORPY is the only reason everyone needs a computer! Thanks, Dave. A brilliant idea carried to fruition. Hurrah and happy birthday! Hurrah and happy birthday! Shorpy's a true gem. It's engrossing, educational, classy, just plain fun, and has one of the most civilized message boards on the 'net. Thank you Dave! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!Thank you, Dave, for enabling this lover of history and photography to travel into the past each and everyday for a glimpse into history. And to all the other "tipsters", thank you as well, specially those who have posted present day shots of the many scenes presented here. The best site on the web! Wow!Has it been three years already! Dave thank you so much and happy belated birthday to the site. One of my daily favorites. Harry "Feet" Swope in High SchoolSeems like an accomplished young man. http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~schoolpics/KY/newp... [Let's check our math. Harry would have been 42 years old in 1935. - Dave] Oops! Oh well... his son seems pretty accomplished. :-) Happy Birthday ShorpyFor most of the three years, this site has been part of my daily routine. Hardly a day goes by that I don't find at least a few minutes to stare back in time. Shorpy himself I think, would love to have known about the noteriety he'd find, a century after posing for that photo. Thank You This Canadian agrees Shorpy.com is one of the best sites on the web . Thanks again. Many Happy Returns to Shorpy! A great website. Thanks Dave for all your time and effort in making this work. Happy Birthday!Not a day goes by that I don't check your site! I love it when I see shots of hometowns from times past! Keep up the good work! Harry in CincyA bit of Google work turned up a link to an 1889 Cincinnati Bell Telephone Book that lists a Robert J. McCombs, Grocer, at the southeast corner of Sycamore and Fourth Streets in Cincinnati. It would have been an easy walk for Harry to cross the Ohio River to this location. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kycchgs/BOOK_M.htm I was unable to find any information about the wirework company that probably provided the seat that Harry is using. Harry's granddaughter says:"That would be my grandfather. His name was Henry Clay Swope. He married Rose Arizona Casebolt, and had three sons: Harry, Stanley (Bud), and Glenn (my Daddy). He was born in Newport, Kentucky, to Jacob Swope (Schwab) and Sally (Sarah) Bogart." (The Gallery, Lewis Hine)
Carnival Ride From Hell: 1911
... the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. From the 1906 book The Bitter Cry of the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/24/2021 - 11:31pm -

January 1911. South Pittston, Pennsylvania. "A view of the Pennsylvania Breaker. 'Breaker boys' remove rocks and other debris from the coal by hand as it passes beneath them. The dust is so dense at times as to obscure the view and penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. From the 1906 book The Bitter Cry of the Children by labor reformer John Spargo:         Work in the coal breakers is exceedingly hard and dangerous. Crouched over the chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate and other refuse from the coal as it rushes past to the washers. From the cramped position they have to assume, most of them become more or less deformed and bent-backed like old men. When a boy has been working for some time and begins to get round-shouldered, his fellows say that “He’s got his boy to carry round wherever he goes.”         The coal is hard, and accidents to the hands, such as cut, broken, or crushed fingers, are common among the boys. Sometimes there is a worse accident: a terrified shriek is heard, and a boy is mangled and torn in the machinery, or disappears in the chute to be picked out later smothered and dead. Clouds of dust fill the breakers and are inhaled by the boys, laying the foundations for asthma and miners’ consumption.         I once stood in a breaker for half an hour and tried to do the work a 12-year-old boy was doing day after day, for 10 hours at a stretch, for 60 cents a day. The gloom of the breaker appalled me. Outside the sun shone brightly, the air was pellucid, and the birds sang in chorus with the trees and the rivers. Within the breaker there was blackness, clouds of deadly dust enfolded everything, the harsh, grinding roar of the machinery and the ceaseless rushing of coal through the chutes filled the ears. I tried to pick out the pieces of slate from the hurrying stream of coal, often missing them; my hands were bruised and cut in a few minutes; I was covered from head to foot with coal dust, and for many hours afterwards I was expectorating some of the small particles of anthracite I had swallowed.         I could not do that work and live, but there were boys of 10 and 12 years of age doing it for 50 and 60 cents a day. Some of them had never been inside of a school; few of them could read a child’s primer. True, some of them attended the night schools, but after working 10 hours in the breaker the educational results from attending school were practically nil. “We goes fer a good time, an’ we keeps de guys wot’s dere hoppin’ all de time,” said little Owen Jones, whose work I had been trying to do.         From the breakers the boys graduate to the mine depths, where they become door tenders, switch boys, or mule drivers. Here, far below the surface, work is still more dangerous. At 14 or 15 the boys assume the same risks as the men, and are surrounded by the same perils. Nor is it in Pennsylvania only that these conditions exist. In the bituminous mines of West Virginia, boys of 9 or 10 are frequently employed. I met one little fellow 10 years old in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, last year, who was employed as a “trap boy.” Think of what it means to be a trap boy at 10 years of age. It means to sit alone in a dark mine passage hour after hour, with no human soul near; to see no living creature except the mules as they pass with their loads, or a rat or two seeking to share one’s meal; to stand in water or mud that covers the ankles, chilled to the marrow by the cold draughts that rush in when you open the trap door for the mules to pass through; to work for 14 hours — waiting — opening and shutting a door — then waiting again for 60 cents; to reach the surface when all is wrapped in the mantle of night, and to fall to the earth exhausted and have to be carried away to the nearest “shack” to be revived before it is possible to walk to the farther shack called “home.”         Boys 12 years of age may be legally employed in the mines of West Virginia, by day or by night, and for as many hours as the employers care to make them toil or their bodies will stand the strain. Where the disregard of child life is such that this may be done openly and with legal sanction, it is easy to believe what miners have again and again told me — that there are hundreds of little boys of 9 and 10 years of age employed in the coal mines of this state. -- John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children (New York: Macmillan, 1906) A little researchOne little search on google answers the question of if this is still allowed to exist. http://hrw.org/children/labor.htm Think Outside the USIt may not be happening here, in the US of A but that doesn't mean it isn't happening... http://hrw.org/children/labor.htm how trueI agree totally with the previous comment. But serious, this is a fantastic photo-- how incredible that this was (and probably still is) allowed to exist! Breaker BoysThere haven't been any kids in American coal mines since the child labor laws were passed around 80 years ago. Plus of course coal-sorting is automated and done by machines now. Breaking..The little boy in the center of the photo looks to be about my son's age. Thinking about my son living that life tears me up. I can't fathom what it would be like to send your child off to that, much less having to work it. That dangerous line of work made for some amazing photos, and some serious thought... This picture has me wondering..I realize that children had to work hard to survive back then, but even my generation had to help our parents as soon as we were able to. Aren't we now raising a bunch of lazy kids that will never grow up. First you worked when you turned 6, then 9 or 10. It's getting so that we are letting children stay children way too long today, and parents are spoiling them to the point that often they are still living at home as adults. There has to be a happy medium here somewhere. I expect that in coming years we will still be taking care of our "children" well into their twenties! Don't get me wrong, my heart breaks to see these tiny children in these photos having to do the things they did to survive! Required School SubjectPerhaps a required course about child labor should be taught in schools. Maybe today's children would gain an appreciation of what they have rather than lamenting what they do not have. Children staying children....Quote "...we are letting children stay children way too long today, ....." Unquote. Pray tell....at what age should a child cease to be a child? BK Canberra Children staying children...At what age should a child cease to be a child? That's easy. The answer in America is 18. If you're old enough to go to war or vote, you're an adult and it's time to get with it. I started working part time (with a work permit) at 15, and my father made it clear I had to be self sufficient or in college at 18, after graduating high school. It worked out pretty well, and I think that vast bulk of children today would benefit from a few deadlines. Children staying children....I remember my US Marine son saying "I'm old enough to vote and to die for my country, but I can't legally drink a beer." He was age 20 when he said this. Coal Miner's DollarThis may be a foolish question, but where did the boys put the rocks and debris they retrieved? Was there some kind of separate "trash" channel within the chute? Did they just toss it somewhere to the side? The text description of the work is chilling. And these children endured this hellhole for less than Loretta Lynn's "miner's dollar" - 60-70 cents a day. Maybe not in Americabut people who aren't Americans are still human beings, right? Still people with souls and hearts and, as Neil Gaiman wrote, entire lives inside every one of them. And we all tend to think of them as lesser beings, or their troubles as less important to us, because they were born on the other side of an artificial border. Mine Owners BurdenDo you believe that any of the folks who profited from the work of these children every set foot in one of these mines? Do you believe THEIR children ever had to even lift a finger to get whatever they needed or wanted ? Just the same old story, the elites living on the backs of the majority. Don't think it isn't going on right now, and that it couldn't happen here if the moneyed elite (left and right) could just get their way! Ah, the good old days! [Yes, they did set foot on the premises. They also provided a livelihood for the thousands of people who chose to work there. - Dave] What beyond bare subsistence is a livelihood?Directed to Dave's response to "Mine Owner's Burden": Perhaps the owners did set foot in the mines, perhaps they did support "the thousands who chose to work there"; but what choice did many of these kids have? Many were either orphaned or born into families without the means to survive if their children did not go to work in the mines. The fact is that the mine owners DID NOT pay a wage that allowed for the families to live above poverty level, even with their sons working beginning work at age 7 or so. [As Lewis Hine documented in his report to the National Child Labor Committee, hardly any of these children were orphans (back when orphans were usually committed to orphanages). Most of them came from two-parent households that, as Hine took pains to point out, didn't need the extra income. And there were other employment opportunities for boys their age -- work in agriculture, fabric mills, markets, etc. - Dave] From Bad to WorseJust when I thought Tobacco Tim had it bad, Shorpy's comes up with this. Unfortunately I'm quite sure that things have been even worse for some kids. Something to ponderBehind every "endowment for the arts", "trusts" that built museums and public venues and all originating from the money made in that era there are proverbial hunched shoulders of the boys as on the photo. AirI feel honored to join a line of comments that stretches back over 14 years to the time of the original posting of this photo. This is a piteous sight indeed, these children performing appalling work in such cramped and hunched-over positions. The text by Spargo documents the numerous horrible features of the job, not the least of which was the dust in the air. Which makes me wonder: couldn’t the overlords at least have opened that window? Sure, it was January, but wouldn’t the chill have been worth it for the sake of fresh air? Constant reminderI live in Northeast Pennsylvania not far from old coal breakers, plus the mountains of culm and coal waste. I was told that the probably the hundreds of thousands tons of this stuff was picked by boys just like these. 110 years laterThis photo is heartbreaking. However, it struck me that today a group of children would have the same posture - all bent over their phones. That is heartbreaking, too, in a different way. Gramps Survived ThisMy granddaddy (1891-1969) was a breaker boy in Pennsylvania. He had to help support a large family. I remember hearing that he got $2 a week and a box of groceries. Then he went off to Europe and fought in WWI in France. He must've been a tough guy but never showed it. He lived a long life but finally black lung disease and a heart attack did him in. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, Mining)
Slice of Life: 1912
... piece that was done. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Cleanliness I'm just curious as to why the home is not clean. In ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/08/2011 - 6:32pm -

August 1912. Another picture of little Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, doing piecework, which usually entailed putting the finishing touches (buttons, or collar and waistband trim) on a mostly completed article of clothing. The garment manufacturers paid a few cents for each piece that was done. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. CleanlinessI'm just curious as to why the home is not clean. In a previous picture, it shows her in the kitchen which needed to be cleaned. My grandparents came from Europe, were extremely poor, but did keep their home and children clean. I'm sure water was available to this family. Any thoughts? [Why do you say the kitchen needs to be cleaned? It is clean. It's a wood plank floor. - Dave] Wow, A Real Optical Illusion!I had to stare at this photo for about two minutes before I was finally able to make out the head of a girl looking downwards. With the help of the cracks in the print, you've got to admit that at a cursory glance, there is a resemblance to the head of a giant schnauzer, looking directly into the camera, especially when not blown to its full size. This really gets one thinking about all the different variables that famous picture of the Loch Ness monster might possibly be. I have seen plenty ofI have seen plenty of pictures of that time and what is the norm then is not the norm now. I have seen whole towns in Ohio where there seem to be no grass, trash everywhere in the city's pictures, but 100 years later, it's lush, green and no trash. I think that this house is the norm. And anyone can tell that is a woman in the window. That Doggie In The Window.If this image had ever been used as the cover of a rock album in the 70s, there would've been endless debate as to the symbolism of the giant schnauzer in the window that appears to be wearing a straitjacket. Is that to prevent it from chasing the cat? The fact that it's the only blurry object in the photo would indicate that it was attempting to jump out of the window or something. It's a girl leaning out the window. ("Giant schnauzer in a straitjacket"?? Hmm.) - Dave dirty kitchen?The caption says she is crocheting underwear in a dirty kitchen. [True. But that's Lewis Hine. Always trying spin a little propaganda on the situation. - Dave] Wow, A Real Optical Illusion 2.0"the head of a giant schnauzer"? You'd better lay off that weed for a while. You're starting to see things. "Ma Fedele Viola"Thanks, Mike, for sharing the info. about our grandmother, Annie Fedele Viola. When my great-parents emigrated from Italy, they lived @ 22 Horace Street for 2 years, moved to Linden St., Somerville Ave., then in 1918 purchased a large Victorian "family" home that was a temporary, CLEAN haven open to extended family and friends who had also recently emigrated from Italy. In our nuclear family, "Ma and Pa" lived above us on the second floor. My mom,(Annie's daughter)still lives in our family home on Bonner Ave. WHen Annie's grandchildren (I'm he eldest) and her 6 great-grandsons visit "Ma's" house, the memories of our grandmother ares still re-kindled in a way that could not be adequately expressed! So, the "American Dream" was a reality for them and I am proud of those photographs by Lewis Wickes Hine! And...oh.. by the way... if I may reiterate my brother Mike's words... Annie taught me how to crochet in her IMMACULATE, FASTIDIOUSLY, CLEAN kitchen!!!!! Clean KitchenAnnie Fedele was also my grandmother and like Mike, we were fortunate to have one of our relatives tell us about these pictures. All the memories of her came flooding back and to have pictures of her at this age, as a young child, is a found treasure. Best of all, the pictures were printed out for our mother,(her daughter). She is thrilled and can't believe these pictures existed. She knew immediately everyone in the pictures and all about where our grandmother lived for a short time before moving. (And yes, as Mike stated, our grandmother, her parents and siblings WERE fastidiously clean!) Thanks Dave! Nancy Clean KitchenAnnie Fedele was my grandmother and I was fortunate enough to have had one of my relatives tell me about the existence of this picture. Fabulous! Thanks to Dave for getting these. (and oh by the way, my grandmother, as well as all her brothers and sisters seen in this picture, were fastidiously clean). Mike Annie FedeleThank you, Mike for sharing the info. about our grandmother, Annie Fedele! Having used Lewis Wickes Hine's photos with my 3rd grade students (Lowell Mill girls, breaker boys, doffers etc.), I can't tell you how over-whelmed I was to see that my grandmother was actually one of Mr. Hine's subjects. I plan on using those photos with my students as a vehicle in making history come alive for them as well as a tribute to the most loving, hard-working and dedicated mother and grandmother one could ever be proud to call "Ma." Yes, she was born @ 22 Horace Street and in 1918, moved to Bonner Ave. in Somerville where her daughter(my Mom)still resides in the Fedele-Viola home!It was "Annie" who taught me how to crochet and my pink/ black afghan is a vivid reminder of sitting in Ma's IMMACULATE kitchen! Mike's grandmotherMike I envy you having a picture of your grandmother at this age. :) House is still thereThe back of 22 Horace Street today: same three-part layout, but the entrance is enclosed. Your Somerville pictures and stories wantedI had found the Lewis Hine photos of Horace and Ward Streets a few years back and was thrilled to know some of the Fedele Family. As Preservation Planner for the City, finding this photo with comments by the family is invaluable. We need the stories our immigrant ancestors told and the pictures don't need to be by famous photographers to tell them. Please write and scan as much as you can and share them with us all. [Link? E-mail address? - Dave] (The Gallery, Cats, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Happy Birthday Shorpy!
... danger of being run over by the coal cars." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Shorpy was born 114 years ago on November 23, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/15/2012 - 9:56am -

December 1910. "Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, Alabama, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Shorpy was born 114 years ago on November 23, 1896. After this photo was taken, he lived 17 more years until he died in a mining accident at the age of 31. This Thanksgiving, let's raise a toast to his too-short but memorable life. Happy birthday ShorpyHappy birthday!!! You are not forgotten Shorpy rememberedWhat a singular thing it is for an otherwise forgotten life to be remembered, even memorialized, this way, via Shorpy, the site. Combined with that, the poignant story of Shorpy the person, his childhood and abruptly shortened life - I gotta say, it brings a tear to my eye. Happy Birthday Shorpy!Shorpy is one day older than my Dad who was born 11-24-96 and died on 1-24-64. Another milestoneNext month will mark the 100th anniversary of this picture and the other photos of Shorpy taken by Lewis Hine. I wonderif Shorpy was related somehow to my 6th grade teacher Mr. Higginbotham, because I remember thinking what an unusual name he had and had NEVER met anyone who had a name like that ... until now! You do honor to his memory.And thank you for running an important historical site. Shorpy, we celebrate your birthday,Yet we are the ones who receive the gifts, not just once a year, but every day that we visit this always interesting and sometimes incredibly moving blog that Dave created and named for you. Thanks to you both and here's to another year. Here's to Shorpy - The hard-working young man, and the fascinating website. Cheers! Happy Birthday and Cheers Shorpy I think it's great that Shorpy Higginbotham (by the way, I know a Higginbotham) is remembered presently as the name and face behind this site that shares our history through "family photographs" for us to enjoy and enrich each other with our posted comments. I hope any one of us has this remembrance decades after our passing. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Remembering ShorpyDown here in the southern hemisphere we are mourning the loss of 29 miners in a mine explosion in New Zealand. I think it is fitting we remember Shorpy and all the nameless ones like him. www.rwyoung.com.au Possible genealogyI think I've found the 1900 Census record for Shorpy: His real name was Henry. Unfortunately the name has an inkblot over it but all the details work out. His father was a miner. He would have been about 3 years old in 1900, and lived in Graysville, Jefferson Co., which is where Bessie Mine is. [His birth name was Henry Sharpe Higginbotham. The basic facts of his life are recounted on Shorpy's Page. Scroll down for the genealogical details. - Dave] Thank You ShorpyFor being there every day ... Thank you Dave for this fantastic website. I wish we had one like this in the Netherlands. Very pity we don't. May you live on forever and ever. It would be nice if Shorpy H. could see these beautiful photos on his own PC up there in Heaven! Happy Birthday ShorpyThanking God today that children don't have to endure what Shorpy did. Yes, I realize children were tougher then, but life was so dangerous. Thanks Shorpy for your legacy. A toast from meRaise your glass to Shorpy Who worked at Bessie Mine He lives on in our memory Because of Lewis Hine Happy Thanksgiving, Shorpsters A glass for ShorpyAnd I don't even drink. There is much that is haunting about many of the photos that you post, but especially Shorpy's. I'd like to think that somewhere, somehow he's aware of this site and marvels that people know and remember him a hundred years later. Happy Birthday Shorpy!And many thanks to Dave for always providing a great way to start each Morning with visions from the past! Happy Thanksgiving to all! Recognitionof Shorpy's lot in life serves to enlighten all of us of with unvarnished looks at the way this country developed. Thanks to Shorpy (who might be a relative) and all who make this site the success it's become. No Joy in MudvilleIt is true that the future of these innocents was inevitable if they were born into the mineworkers' families in small towns and hollers in which mining was the only work available. There were few choices and to earn a living, they just had to 'man up', take the high risk jobs of (literally) backbreaking labor, accept that any day could be their last and were glad to have any job. These strong and courageous men and boys were not seeking fame and admiration, just struggling to support their families and do their jobs well. Like many people, even today, they were probably considered "nobodies" by the upper crust of society but to their families they were saints and saviors. My mom told me that when her father finished his day at the mines and walked home, his wife had a warm bath ready (with hand-carried, stove-heated water), then started every meal with soup (to clear out the throat and lungs of soot) and made it clear that he was appreciated by his kids all helping and serving him. I can't speak for everyone but in his case, they never got wealthy (owed their soul to the company store), suffered many family tragedies and his work-related injuries stayed with him for life. Things were so different then, it is hard to believe it was just about 100 years ago, but people truly struggled to survive. We don't know how lucky we are today. Happy birthday Shorpy, we hardly knew ye. I never realizedin all the time I've spent here, that the site was named for a real person. Thanks so much for giving us this great place to visit and expand our views of history, and special thanks to Shorpy himself. One for ShorpyI will raise a glass high and take a long drink in his honor. A question for Dave or Ken. What prompted you to choose Shorpy's name and face for this site? [The three photos of him just reached out and grabbed me for some reason. Poignant, I suppose. And the name "Shorpy" was appealing -- unique as far as Google was concerned (just one hit), and available as a domain name. - Dave] Daily remindersEvery day, without fail, includes a visit here. Young Henry Sharpe, aka "Shorpy," looks out at me every time as a reminder of my blessings. I do hope he had some in his short life. Another lowly worker, of a different kind, Green Cottenham, brought through exploration of his life a detailed look at oppression, in Douglas A. Blackmon's unforgettable book, "Slavery by Another Name." I am grateful for the images I see here each day, which serve to reinforce the great faith and effort to achieve true freedom and justice in this country. I am more grateful for the support which makes this site continue its important contribution to the understanding of what we had, what we have, and what we still must achieve; and for authors such as Mr. Blackmon, who "keep going," to bestow honor on the lowly heroes of our past. Happy Birthday ShorpyGotta say, when i was 20, I was out partying, now that I'm 50 I've found a better way to spend my nights, and that's with you dave, and especially SHORPY. Shorpy Higginbotham's story This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. For Shorpy readers who haven't seen it, here is the sad story of Shorpy Higginbotham. http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2014/11/26/henry-s-higginbotham-page-on... Little MenThere's a heartbreaking lot of little men in this picture. Look at those expressions. It was a different world, and we have it way too easy, now--for which I am thankful! Thanks for the site, Dave. It was an inspired idea. Happy Birthday Shorpy!I love the great history of the U.S. Thanks for the site. Land of Equality Who says that America isn't integrated??? Glad to know nowthat this excellent website is named after someone who would have otherwise been forgotten by history. I find Shorpy's story fascinating and the website a great part of my every day. Thanks for this site and keeping Shorpy's memory alive. A guy who worked hard and served his country. Lunch is on meShorpy is my lunchtime friend. When the the boss comes around, invariably when I'm eating al desko and asks what are you doing, I answer either "a BLT" or "Shorpy." Salute!All my respect goes to the hardworking miners of the world. Always center stage.I can't help but think that although he was short of stature, he was someone to reckon with. Everytime he's in a picture somewhere, he is in the middle of the picture. A real handful. The strange things you deduct from pictures. Happy birthday Shorp! Happy Birthday, Shorpy!This was a rather poignant entry, Dave; thanks for all your fine work on here. Shorpy and I share the same birthday, and had his luck been better he probably would have been alive when I was born in 1959 on what would have been his 65th birthday. I think it is wonderful that an ordinary hard-working guy is memorialized on this site, and I hope he's is aware of it, somehow, somewhere, and is amused by it. I also hope that short and hard as his life was, that Shorpy had moments of joy and laughter that outshone the tough times. Happy 114th, Shorpy!! Training, sort of?Not trying to justify the working conditions that Shorpy and his pals had to work in, but I guess it was good training for the trenches of France where many of these guys would be a few years later. Heck, one might say that Army life was a vacation compared to day-to-day at the Bessie Mine. Thanks to Shorpy for his inspiration and to Dave for taking the ball and running with it. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, Mining)
Night Shift: 1911
... work side by side with the white workers." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. "Side by side with the white workers" ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/04/2011 - 7:51am -

June 1911. Alexandria, Virginia. "Old Dominion Glass Co. A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria glass factory. Negroes work side by side with the white workers." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. "Side by side with the white workers"It seems as if Mr. Hine wants to say that that is a shame apart from young boys working. Perspectives Do ChangeWhen Mr. Hine noted that "Negroes work side by side with the white workers," I don't think he thought that was a good thing. How times have changedAnd kids these days think they have it hard when the internet goes down for an hour. Just the factsI'm not getting any kind of point of view from reading the associated statement. Sounded like the writer was stating a simple fact. Maybe the writer felt he needed to explain why the black kid was in the photo. Those poor children. My heart is heavy just looking at that photo. They should be in school or playing. And yet, from their expressions I get the feeling that these kids ended up okay. I wish I could say the same thing about of lot of the young boys around today. Working togetherAt a time when blacks and whites weren't always seen working together, even if they did. It is a plain statement of fact by the photographer that they work together at the mines. Huh?Actually, I thought Mr. Hine's note was taking pains to point out that at lower class levels the races were mixing - over the dual issue of working to pay rent and provide food for a family. Nowhere does Hine apply a pejorative sense. He had been a crusader who used his art to help end child labor. So I don't think he would have minded at all. Two things come to mind1. The boy on the far right seems to think he's a pretty tough guy. 2. The variety of the facial features show how unique we all are. I'm glad God didn't make us all from the same mold. It would have been pretty boring by now. Hey you - photog!Kid on the right appears to be saying: "here, hold my jacket while I give that photog a bunch in the nose!" Expressions on their facesI see Apprehension, Anger, Fear, Indifference, not much Joy though. Glass Could Be Half FullWhy must Hine's comment be interpreted in the negative? As he was documenting child labor, it may have struck him as a pleasant surprise that the boys worked together regardless of race. Encountering such comraderie in Virginia a mere 46 years after the end of the Civil War might have had a lot to do with it. [The caption information comes from more than one photo. Hine took several pictures of just the black workers. - Dave] Called OutThe boy with half a jacket on (2nd from right in front) looks like he's scared enough to pee his pants. My imagination tells me that the boys to either side of him (especially the one with his hand against his shoulder) plan to beat him up on his way home from work, and they've been letting him know that all day. Night Shift: 1911 Almost all the workers in factories and mills at this time were white. The country was segregated - remember? That's why it is very rare to see an African-American in Hine's child labor photos, especially in a state like Virginia. The fact that this situation is an exception is the only reason Hine mentioned it. That's all there is to it. Hine was not a racist. He believed deeply that everyone had dignity and should be treated with respect. But he was not a 1960s-style civil rights worker. Had he been a photojournalist in the days of the bus boycotts and the Selma marches, his camera would have been right there on the front lines. Old Dominion Glass Washington Post, Feb 24, 1907. Mammoth Bottle Plant. Old Dominion Glass Company One of Alexandria's Big Industrial Concerns. … The factory is the largest south of New Jersey. Its daily output is in the neighborhood of two carloads. The number of bottles varies, as it takes a much longer time to make the large bottles than it does to make the small vials. A team, however, turns out from five to six thousand bottles a day. The Old Dominion Glass Company makes a specialty of beer and soda bottles, which are not only guaranteed to stand the highest pressure from within, but also the hottest steaming. Not less than 2,000 molds are kept by the firm. These vary in size and style from the one dram druggist vial to a fifteen-gallon carboy. This plant covers four or five acres and employs not less than two hundred and fifty blowers and molders. Here everything in the manufacture of the glass bottle may be seen. First the visitor is carried to the enormous sand pits, where hundreds of tons of glistening white sand is being hauled away to be mixed with soda, ash and lime in chemically exact proportions. This mixture, which has to be carried out with great accuracy in order to secure the best results, requires the employment of a special chemist for that purpose. It is then placed in an enormous furnace or retort. Here it is subjected to a temperature that is almost inconceivable. The foreman will tell that this mass has to be brought to a temperature of 2,800 degrees before it will fuse. This intense heat is obtained by burning unrefined coal gas under heavy pressure. At this plant there is a separate manufacturing department for this gas, and here many tons of coal are consumed daily in order to get the necessary amount of gas. As the sand, lime and soda ash fuse into a liquid mass, it flows to the end of the furnace, where swarthy workmen, scantily clad, stand with long iron pipes. They dip the ends of the pipes into the white-hot mass and draw out a small bulb of it. This they roll on slabs until it cools to an orange color. It is then thrust into a mold and the glass blower inflates the bulb, making it fill the recess. The bottle is then taken out of the mold with pincers and placed upon a pair of scales. Here one must stop to marvel. Every bottle tips the scale and makes it balance absolutely. It is this feature that enables the glass blower to make from eight to ten dollars a day. If he should get the fraction of an ounce more of the liquid mass on the end of the iron pipe, the thickness of the bottle would vary and of course the weight would be a variable quantity. … (The Gallery, Factories, Lewis Hine)
Re-Becca: 1909
... is 12. Next, Rebecca Kirwin, is 14." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size. Birds of a ... 
 
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March 1909. A trio of Hartford, Connecticut, newsies. "Have been selling two years. Youngest, Yedda Welled, is 11 years old. Next, Rebecca Cohen, is 12. Next, Rebecca Kirwin, is 14." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size. Birds of a feather flock togetherBut are they? Hartford had more than one paper, so we can't say for certain if they're comrades, or competitors. The Labor Committee seems to have made a specialty of "newsies", presumably because (1) they were plentiful , and (2) you didn't get thrown out of a factory for photographing them. Mean GirlsBut not like Lindsay Lohan in the movie. More like the countless females of this, and many other eras whose lives would consist of hard work, few opportunities, and financial struggle. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Breaking Point: 1912
... old woman. Lafayette Street below Astor Place." Photo by Lewis Hine. View full size. Fantastic It's astounding how many of those ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 10:36am -

New York, February 1912. "The breaking point. A heavy load for an old woman. Lafayette Street below Astor Place." Photo by Lewis Hine. View full size. FantasticIt's astounding how many of those buildings are still there. As interesting, they actually look older in the earlier photo than they do today. The Woman and the HorseThe horse to seems to have a better deal. He's resting and having lunch. Then and NowThis stretch of street (Lafayette at East Fourth) looks remarkably the same today. The building on the left with the arched windows houses a wine store, and the large building in the distance has a K-Mart at street level. There are lots of trendy restaurants on Lafayette, where Blue Man Group "Tubes" started (and is still playing) at the Astor Place Theater, just a couple of blocks north. View Larger Map How?How do you know she is old? Because she has a shawl? The men are all wearing coats, so it must be cold. [Because Lewis Hine's caption says she's old. He was there to take the picture, so he should know. - Dave] TimePictures like this make me want to burn every book Jack "Oh weren't things SOOO much better back in the Good Old Days" Finney ever wrote. Every copy of "Time and Again" should have this picture as a frontispiece. RelativityThat old (immigrant) woman was probably used to far heavier loads back in the Old Country. Warm Tone ImageDave, this image has a wonderful warm tone on my computer monitor. If your source for this is a digital file from a scan of the original negative, did you "tweak" the file to add the warmth? [This is a resaturated version of the reference image, which was made from a paper print that is quite yellow. - Dave] Building AppearanceMany of the older buildings in the cities look nicer and newer since they stopped burning soft coal and cleaned their exteriors. I remember going into Boston in the 60's and the buildings were mostly gray and black. Things look much nicer now. More detailsBuilding on the far right with the arched windows is the Devinne Press (Astor Wine & Spirits). Tall white building in the distance that seems to be pushing out into the street is the extension of Wanamaker's department store built in 1902 (KMart). Barely visible up the block on the left is Colonnade Row (Blue Man Group/Indochine) and up the block on the right is Astor Library (Joseph Papp Public Theatre). What a window into the Lower East Side (East Village). Potrzebie!Fondest memory I have of Lafayette Street is from the early 1950s, going to visit the offices of MAD Comics and buying back issues issues of both MAD and PANIC. Still wish my mom hadn't thrown them out. Quite a loadWish someone had the presence of mind to help her. That being said, she's crazy strong for an old lady. +87Below is the same view from June of 2009. (The Gallery, Lewis Hine, NYC)
Our Gang: 1916
... Margaret and Water streets -- 4:30 p.m." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Knickers, and rifles, and guns -- Oh my! It's ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/06/2010 - 6:08am -

June 27, 1916. Springfield, Massachusetts. "Street gang, corner Margaret and Water streets -- 4:30 p.m." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Knickers, and rifles, and guns -- Oh my!It's pretty hard to look tough in a pair of knickers. You try it! Well done, boys. One Chewer in the bunch.Second from the left, not counting the little kids. Present arms!I'd venture a guess thats a Daisy one-pump BB gun that fellow to the left is sporting, presuming Daisy was in business at that time. Uh-ohThese kids creep me out. They could be capable of murder and abuse! Roll Your OwnThis is definitely a pouch and paper crowd. When America Was GreatKids, cigarettes and guns. All was well. Standards of dressInteresting that in those days even street-corner gangsters wore ties! Some things never changeAdd about 150 tattoos, 50-odd piercings, spray-on jeans for the girls, and pull the boys' pants down around their knees ... make the rifle an Uzi and make the soundtrack a cacophonous mixture of hiphop and metal, and ... voila! You've got now. What was sad then is still sad today. Ominous BunchI fear they didn't amount to much in adulthood. This is another Shorpy masterpiece. Armed & DangerousLooks like Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall with the East Side Kids! At least that's not an AK47 as you see in gangland today Go Shorpy! Times have changed.1916 Gangstas! Street ToughsMargaret Street today runs from Main Street just a couple of hundred yards or so down toward the Connecticut River, where it dead-ends at Interstate 91. I have a hunch Water Street may have run parallel to the River back in 1916, decades before the land along the waterfront was taken for the purpose of constructing the highway that now runs from Vermont all the way to New Haven. The Springfield waterfront in the 19-teens was probably teeming with streetwise little roughnecks like these fellows. The first wave of..Mad Men--but without the scotch. Fast forward ten years and they'll probably be running it though, and with a tommy gun instead of a rifle. Love this picture! Calling Prof. HillWith five of those boys wearing identical newsboy caps, a.k.a. Gatsby hats, do you suppose that represents the "gang colors"? The Gatsby Hat Gang? Note also: BB guns and 10¢ a pack cigarettes. "Oh, we got trouble!!" ATF Back when Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was a convenience store, not a Gummint Agency Tough Looking BunchI imagine Hine took this picture and then started running. Where's Leo Gorcey?Early version of the Bowery Boys modeling the latest Hart, Schaffner and Marx fashions while enjoying those Royal Nestors. Tough?The Cornett boys could kick 'em all up and down the block. Daisy Model 25The gun is a Daisy Model 25 BB rifle. For more on its history check out Page 18 of Daisy Air Rifles and BB Guns: The First 100 Years. *sigh* I still remember my first Daisy. 1916 KidsI love reading comments from people. These kids were just your average-type kid back then. Everyone smoked (no health issues yet) and all the kids carried BB guns, even to school. It was a much different time back then. I can remember my grandfather telling me he started smoking at the age of 9. Not a household nameThis was 23 years before the "Daisy Red Ryder" gun made the company a household name in 1939. But, Daisy had been making rifles since 1882. When I was a kid I had a Daisy pump gun that could be shot 60 times without reloading. There were several boys in the neighborhood that had BB guns. It's a wonder that we made it to adulthood with both eyes intact. The DaisyI did a quick check, and the pump Daisy was introduced in 1914. Pictures on Daisy site confirm memory; that is almost certainly a Daisy pump. That young hoodlum is armed and ready to shoot his eye out! He's the only one with what was likely a pretty high end toy for the day...I bet he allowed the others to plink at pigeons in exchange for cigarettes! Uneeda Biscuit!Whether you know it or not. ChangesThis is in the South End of Springfield. There are still gangs hanging out there today, but smoking something completely different now. The building is still there (I think)This is a Street View at the corner of Margaret and Main. If you look closely at the bottom right of the window. You can see a round metal plate in the pavement. This position correlates with the vent pipe seen in the original photo. The corner entrance has been closed and altered and the entrance is now on Main Street. View Larger Map Pretty well dressed gangWhat impresses me is that for the most part these kids are neatly and properly dressed -- I think the tough guy in the middle is playing to the crowd & most probably has his necktie in his pocket- he'll spruce up before going home to Mother. Could be my fatherDad was a 4-year-old living on Margaret Street in 1916. They do make them like they used toFor those of you who want your very own Daisy Number 25, the company recently reissued it. Tough looking gangNo, Hine didn't start running after taking this picture, he took another one a few minutes later (or before?). Look for the differences: Springfield StoryHow much you wanna bet they couldn't dance as well as the Sharks or even da Jets? My First GunMy first gun was a Red Ryder lever action BB gun. I didn't grow up with dolls, I grew up with guns. Margaret Street & East Columbus AveMy Aunty Pat(Pasqualina) grew up on Margaret street, and her husband(Nicola Buoniconti, we called him "Uncle Slim") took over her father's bakery(Mercolino's) after he retired. That's my grandfatherThe smoker is my grandfather, Arnold Martinelli I am pretty sure of it. He lived at 123 Water Street during this time. He came from Italy in 1906. He would be about 12 in this picture. He was a tough guy and occasionally a wise guy. He grew up to invent the injection mold process for making plastic wares such as food storage containers and drinking glasses. (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
We're No. 66!
... favorite Shorpy comment: T. Terrace's caption, a la Lewis Wickes Hine, of the decolorization of his own photo (I still laugh every time I ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/29/2009 - 10:44am -

Très excitement. Ken informs me that Shorpy is No. 66 on PC Magazine's list of the Top 100 Websites of 2009! (Yes, this is the kind of fluff incisive reportage magazines run in the summer so the staff can go on vacation, and we're happy to take part.) I want to thank tterrace, Stanton Square, Joe Manning and everyone else who has helped put us, if not on top, at least solidly in the top part of the bottom third! [UPDATE: Even though we are the 66th website on the list, Kyle at PC Mag tells us the results are not a numerical ranking but rather the results of voting on two groups: Top 50 "classic" sites and Top 50 "undiscovered."] Yay Shorpy!There are millions of websites, but only one Shorpy. Being number 66 is quite an accomplishment. 66I log on to this site every day to see the new pictures that have been uploaded and I don't know why. I just find it fascinating to look at photos that are that old. a whole world that has come and gone before mine. Apparently a lot of people feel the same way. Great !!!!Congratulations from Brazil !!! Congrats!Well deserved. This site is must reading/viewing for me! CongratulationsCongratulations and well-deserved. And, at 66, seems that you've just squeaked into the middle third! Way to go, Shorpy!Should have been first, in my opinion. Way To Go Dave!!!This is indeed a great thing for you and the readers/contributors here. A truly unique site that makes us all sit back, look and enjoy your version of the microscope to the past. And I think I speak for all when I say a hearty 'thank you'. Doug Fluff or not,Fluff or not, congratulations are well deserved! This site is excellent, and should have been much higher placed. Kudos all aroundGlad to have been along and look forward to moving onward and upward. Most Excellent! Figip for everyone! Atta Boy Dave!!Just wanted to add my congratulations to the list. Shorpy is my home page! First thing I see when I fire up Safari. Cheers! Well doneI found you through James Lileks, word of blog so to speak. Great News!You deserve it! One of my favorite sites! Made Our DayWe should all be proud of Dave and Ken for creating, maintaining and constantly improving the Shorpy site. Those of us that are daily visitors and contributors celebrate with you. Always Number ONE in my book!While this is great news, Dave, Shorpy is my favorite site to visit. A day doesn't go by where I don't check in to see what's new, or browse through older photographs. Your presence on Facebook is appreciated and hopefully is adding to Shorpy's traffic. I know that I keep promoting the site to all my friends, and will continue to do so. Shorpy is Number ONE! RankingsIt's a bit of a shock to see us 8 places behind Awkward Family Photos, but at least we beat out Ugliest Tattoos. Seriously, thank you, Dave! Happy to have done my part. Oh, and I also frequently put links to my contributions on my Facebook page for the benefit of my 38 Friends. That must have had something to do with it. Unprepared remarksIn addition to my mother and my agent, I'd also like to thank all the nice people who nominated Shorpy for a spot on the list. In addition to the many commenters and photo posters whose contributions have made the site so interesting. And of course we can't forget the photographers whose work is shown here, and the archivists, technicians and historians who have helped make it available. And Ken (a.k.a. User1), who put both the dot and the com in Shorpy.com. And last but not least let us direct a round of applause to Shorpy himself. Clapclapclap! Best of all......You guys did it without gratuitous sex, violence, vulgarity, or government subsidies. Good taste and quality every day on Shorpy! Congrats!! Doug [Aside from the zillions in taxpayer dollars that made these photos available through the Library of Congress, and the occasional soggy wool bathing suit, this is all very true! - Dave] So funny!>>>upper part of the lower third
Break Time: 1909
... time at machine if they wish." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Temptation "In this hardscrabble life I live, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/21/2009 - 1:32am -

January 1909. Augusta, Georgia. "Noon Hour. Workers in Enterprise Cotton Mill. The wheels are kept running through noon hour (which is only 40 minutes) so employees may be tempted to put in part of this time at machine if they wish." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Temptation"In this hardscrabble life I live, I only get 40 minutes in a long hard day to relax and eat my lunch, but the wheels are running! I can't get enough of that wheel! I must man the wheel!" I don't get it. I am impressed by the sheer size of the bouffant the girl on the right is sporting. Her hair, when out of its holster, must have been very long and luxurious. Noon HourThe Enterprise Cotton Mill must employ some sort of evil sorcery to make the noon hour equal only 40 minutes. Now if they could ADD on 20 extra minutes, I might be more likely to submit a resume. Kids these daysIf I had kids today, I'd be decorating the walls with pictures like this. When the kids whined about chores I'd tap the pictures and remind them how lucky they are. Lunch time?Ha! Very interesting, since in 2009 it is now politically incorrect to take a lunch break when there is work to be done. Even now, my lunch is at my elbow and my fingers are on the keyboard. I was tempted! I take lunch breaks every day!>> It's politically incorrect to take a lunch break when there is work to be done How is that? I don't think it has anything to do with PC but more with having to tackle more work because of layoffs of co-workers. As with PC? If my co-worker doesn't like me enjoying my lunch break, too bad for him or her. I could not care less what anyone thinks. If someone feels it is PC, then I would suggest a therapist to overcome the sense of feeling inadequate as a pushover at work. It's all how you see life. The real lesson hereThe hardest thing for today's young people to "get" about these photos might be that, as Lewis Hine frequently noted, these kids chose work over a free education. IronicI'm from Augusta and now Enterprise Mills is upscale loft-style apartments. Family TreeI'm from the section of Augusta that is called Harrisburg. It was mainly a mill town. Many of my ancestors, Great Grandfather, Grandfather and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins were working the Augusta mills at that time. My Great Grandfather started at 11 years old. Now we don't even have an active mill in Augusta. (The Gallery, Factories, Lewis Hine)
Arthur Havard: 1911
... driver. Shaft #6. Pennsylvania Coal Co." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Arthur Havard: 1911 This is Joe Manning, of ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/01/2011 - 2:21pm -

January 1911. South Pittston, Pa. "Arthur Havard, a young (mule) driver. Shaft #6. Pennsylvania Coal Co." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Arthur Havard: 1911 This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I just talked to Arthur's grandson. Hine took three photos of Arthur, and the grandson knew nothing about them. I will be interviewing him soon. Shades of the Almost Forgotten PastPeriod. ExampleLewis Hine's work is a good example of why I just abhor the whole "photography as art" thing. Not that an excellent photograph is not, but it being cataloged as "art" by reputation, name and the opinion of those in the know (read: money) just makes me ill. Lewis had a hard time with this himself. He had to die to be (duh) discovered. Pardon the rant. ThanksShorpy - I want you to know how much I appreciate you, your work, and this site. This is an amazing image, one of the most moving you've published. I'm grateful for the opportunity you've given me to develop a better understanding of the past of our present. Thank you. Arthur Havard: 1911This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. According to a brief family history posted on Ancestry.com, Arthur was born in 1897, and died in 1952. According to the 1930 census, he married in 1926, had a baby son the same year, and was still working in a coal mine. So Arthur is 14 in the photoDied when he was 55. What are the odds that it was a lung-related disease. Thanks for reminding us again, Dave, that our present lives are comfortable in comparison with the lives of our great-grandparents. All of our current 14 year olds, no matter what their economic class, get to go to school. That progress is part of what our great-grandparents wanted for their own descendants, and what they struggled to give us. DadMy dad was a "mule driver" in a Western Pennnsylvania bituminous coal mine as a youth. His job was to guide the mule and coal cart on tracks out of the mine. On the way out, he would make sure that no clumps of coal would fall off the cart. If they did he would have to pick up the coal, climb to the top of the load and replace the fallen coal on top of the load. The coal company had a bell at the exit tunnel hanging down to ring as it was hit on the way out. If the bell did not ring, the team who cut, dug and loaded the coal would not be paid for a full load. He could never let that bell not to ring. That team of miners were his relatives and neighbors in the same "Coal Patch". (Coal Company Houses) WowThere's something really haunting about this image. Arthur's grandsonDid Joe ever interview Arthur's grandson? We'd all like to know what he might have told him about his grandfather! Arthur HavardThis is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. I did interview the grandson, and Arthur's daughter. Here is the story. http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2015/01/18/arthur-havard/ (The Gallery, Lewis Hine, Mining)
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