Lewis Hine

Quick Facts

• He was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on September 26, 1874.
• He worked as a teacher.
• He started photographing in Ellis Island in 1904.

His cause was child labor.

He did it to convince the public of how harmful it was.

His photographs contributed to the sudy of child labor in the early-twentieth-century.

His photographs have also helped other documentary photographers.

There is a Lewis Hine award for those who do a good job in helping young people.

"There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work."


"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."

Keep a high moral and fight for what you know is right.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Timothy 6:9-10

Links:

• http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/
• http://www.biography.com/people/lewis-hine-9339610
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/lewishine161834.html
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Lewis_Hine.aspx
• http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/