Spinner in a A.C. Mill, #346
Date1908
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 number87.80
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Order and Border", February 26, 2010 - August 28, 2011Credit LineGift of Chuck Kuhn
Dimensions5 x 6 15/16 in. (12.7 x 17.6 cm)
MediumGelatin silver print
1914
Object number: 87.74
1914
Object number: 87.82
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