Knitter in Hoisery Mill, Alabama
Date1914
Label TextLewis Hine took photographs to promote social reform. On behalf of the National Child Labor Committee, he set out to document conditions for young children working in various agricultural and industrial operations. To gain entry into these mills, he invented guises and posed as a fire inspector, post card vendor, Bible salesman, and impoverished schoolteacher. In his photographs, children tend to look out from their surroundings with tough expressions, steeling themselves against what Hine called "the vicious circle of poverty that awaits them."
Object number87.71
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Order and Border", February 26, 2010 - August 28, 2011Credit LineGift of Chuck Kuhn
Dimensions4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (11.8 x 16.8 cm)
MediumGelatin silver print
1914
Object number: 87.82
negative 1940, printed 1977
Object number: 83.160
1936; modern print from original negative in Farm Security Administration, Offic
Object number: 85.343
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