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Girls in the. You must join the virtual exhibition queue when you arrive. If capacity has been reached for the day, the queue will close early. Lewis Hine American. Not on view. Trained as a sociologist at Columbia University, Hine gave up his teaching job in to become a full-time photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. The success of the reform agency, created four years earlier, was largely dependent on its ability to sway public opinion. 
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Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. You might recognize the line. But, as in all good comedy, the sketch has some grounding in reality. The men were riffing on the brutal facts of life for children who once toiled in English factories. Childhood in Vermont could mean working grindingly long hours in dangerous factories for meager wages. Their paltry pay provided their families with much-needed income. But despite the economic benefits of having children work, reports of factory conditions shocked Vermonters and spurred state lawmakers to intervene in ways that ran contrary to their generations-long practice of refusing to regulate businesses. In Vermont, as in the rest of the nation, children had always worked on family farms. Then Again Finding Addie
She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and new would "stay. She leans casually on her spinning frame, staring out at the camera, dressed in a filthy work smock. Her bare feet, planted firmly, are slick with black grease. Her left arm rests easily on the huge machinery but crooked at a strange angle, as if perhaps a bone had been broken and never set properly. To keep her hair from the frame's hungry grasp, it is pulled tight and pinned in a style befitting a grown woman. A few wispy strays float around her head like a halo. Addie Card 12 years
F. Lewis Hine relied on subterfuge to accomplish his mission. Instead, Hine would take on a persona — Bible salesman, fire inspector, postcard peddler or industrial photographer — and try to talk his way in. Undaunted, he would wait just off the property and photograph the children as they left work. Hine, a sociologist and social reformer, was in his mids when the National Child Labor Committee, a leading advocacy group for reform on this issue, hired him as a photographer. His work would take him around the East Coast and into the Midwest, where children, sometime younger than 10, were working more than 10 hours a day, often under dangerous conditions.