Lewis Hine
This was the high-tide of tenement homework in New York City when children like these worked at flower-making, picking out nut-meats and many other and many other things long days and even into the night,(this was going on at 8;00 P.M.) Their schooling, health and recreation suffered very much.
A gelatin silver print by Lewis Hine captures the grim reality of child labor in New York City tenements, depicting children engaged in piecework such as flower-making and nut-picking well into the evening hours. The photograph, taken at 8:00 PM, serves as a powerful documentary record of the toll that homework labor took on the schooling, health, and recreation of these young workers. Hine's unflinching image stands as a testament to the widespread exploitation of children during the peak era of tenement homework in New York City.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print, printed 1920s.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
October 1, 2013
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