Research Catalog

Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States

Title
  1. Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Published by
  1. ca. 1900-1937.
Author
  1. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Council of National Defense.
  2. Milbank Memorial Fund.
  3. National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
  4. National Council of Defense.
  5. Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
  1. 104 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 24.3 x 19.3 cm. and smaller.
Summary
  1. Interior and exterior views concerning labor in various light and heavy industries, worker's housing and social conditions in the United States including Connecticut, Illinois, New England, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Subject
  1. African Americans
  2. Ammunition
  3. Arms & Armaments
  4. Artificial flower industry
  5. Bakeries
  6. Barbershops
  7. Barns
  8. Baseball
  9. Basements
  10. Bedrooms
  11. Beggars
  12. Bicycle shops
  13. Blind persons
  14. Bread & soup lines
  15. Business enterprises
  16. Cabinet making
  17. Canals
  18. Card games
  19. Carpenter shops
  20. Carpenters
  21. Carriages & coaches
  22. Carts & wagons
  23. Checkers
  24. Chewing gum industry
  25. Child labor
  26. Children
  27. Children & adults
  28. Children playing outdoors
  29. Children praying
  30. Children reading
  31. Children's clothing & dress
  32. Cigar industry
  33. City & town life
  34. Classrooms
  35. Cleaning establishments
  36. Clock & watch industry
  37. Clock & watch making
  38. Clocks & watches
  39. Clothing & dress
  40. Clothing industry
  41. Coal miners
  42. Coal mining
  43. Confectioneries
  44. Cotton industry
  45. Dwellings
  46. Educational buildings
  47. Engineering
  48. Families
  49. Farm life
  50. Fathers & children
  51. Fences
  52. Food industry
  53. Furniture industry
  54. Gangs
  55. General stores
  56. Glassblowing
  57. Glass industry
  58. Glassworking
  59. Hats
  60. Home labor
  61. Horses
  62. Hosiery industry
  63. Ice cream & ices
  64. Immigrants
  65. Industrial buildings
  66. Infants
  67. Kindergartens
  68. Laboratories
  69. Lamps
  70. Letter carriers
  71. Libraries
  72. Light fixtures
  73. Loading docks
  74. Longshoremen
  75. Luggage
  76. Mannequins
  77. Markets
  78. Marine terminals
  79. Measuring
  80. Mechanics (Persons)
  81. Men
  82. Mothers & children
  83. Newspaper carriers
  84. Nurseries
  85. Nursing
  86. Occupations
  87. Organ grinders
  88. Ovens
  89. Pawnshops
  90. Peddlers
  91. Piers & wharves
  92. Police
  93. Poor persons
  94. Printing
  95. Printing presses
  96. Product inspections
  97. Radio industry
  98. Ragpicking
  99. Railroad employees
  100. Railroad construction & maintenance
  101. Ramps
  102. Religious articles
  103. Salvage
  104. Scientific equipment
  105. Sewing machines
  106. Shellfish industry
  107. Sick persons
  108. Signs
  109. Silk industry
  110. Snowshoeing
  111. Spinning machinery
  112. Stables
  113. Steamboats
  114. Stoves
  115. Streets
  116. Sugar industry
  117. Tenement houses
  118. Testing
  119. Textile industry
  120. Textile machinery
  121. Textile mill workers
  122. Tincups
  123. Tuberculosis
  124. Tugboats
  125. Trucks
  126. Unemployed
  127. Uniforms
  128. Warehouses
  129. War work
  130. Waterfronts
  131. Window displays
  132. Women
  133. Wool industry
  134. Alexandria (Va.)
  135. Bethlehem (Pa.)
  136. Camden (N.J.)
  137. Charleston (S.C.)
  138. Chicago (Ill.)
  139. Connecticut
  140. Georgia
  141. Illinois
  142. Lancaster (Pa.)
  143. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
  144. Maryland
  145. Millville (N.J.)
  146. Nashville (Tenn.)
  147. Newark (N.J.)
  148. New England
  149. New Haven (Conn.)
  150. New Jersey
  151. New York (N.Y.)
  152. New York (State)
  153. North Carolina
  154. Patterson (N.J.)
  155. Pennsylvania
  156. Philadelphia (Pa.)
  157. Pittsburgh (Pa.)
  158. Scotland Neck (N.C.)
  159. South Carolina
  160. Tennessee
  161. Virginia
  162. Washington (D.C.)
  163. Yonkers (N.Y.)
Genre/Form
  1. Cityscapes.
  2. Interiors.
  3. Landscapes.
  4. Portraits.
  5. Photographic prints.
  6. Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Call number
  1. MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
Note
  1. Collection stamps, paper labels verso some items; Collection stamps recto below and/or on image lower right.
  2. Institutional stamps from "The National Child Labor Committee", "The National Council of Defense" and "The Milbank Memorial Fund" verso on some items.
  3. Photographer's stamps verso on some items.
  4. Titles, captions, subject designations, negative numbers, photographer's credits and dates inscribed in pencil and/or ink, verso, recto on or below image lower right on some items.
  5. Title devised by cataloger.
  6. "Injury noted" stamps, verso on some items.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Cite as (note)
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Provenance (note)
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Author
  1. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
Title
  1. Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Imprint
  1. ca. 1900-1937.
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite as:
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding aids
  1. Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Local subject
  1. Hamilton Watch Company (Lancaster, Penna.)
  2. Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Added author
  1. Council of National Defense.
  2. Milbank Memorial Fund.
  3. National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
  4. National Council of Defense.
  5. Romana Javitz Collection.
Research call number
  1. MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
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