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@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:17 AM

In #Fortune #OCTOBER 1933
#TVA - 2
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As #LewisHine was at work, an article by #JamesAgee gives as vivid, incisive and - of course - magnificently written a picture as possible of the problems posed by the #TennesseeValley and of the goals of the TVA - and #theNewDeal.
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Cover of Fortune magazine, October 1933. Illustration by Norman Reeves.
@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:56 AM

#LewisHine #blackandwhitephotography #Sociology #CulturalAnthropology
The #photographs taken in his 5-week stint show: families who were forced to vacate their homes and lands because of the effects of the first great dam to be constructed; rock drilling at the dam site; ➡️

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 7:57 AM

Further data in their files; #894 Nurse Investigator Records, Department of Public Charities.’
Photo & caption by Lewis Wickes Hine in cooperation with the Clearing House for Mental Defectives, 303 East 20th Street
#blackandwhitephotography #LewisHine #Muckrakers #ProgressiveEra

@worldofartbysue.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 4:42 PM

September's theme: Labor
LEWIS HINE (1874 - 1940),“Group of Breaker Boys, Pittston, Pennsylvania”, 1911. Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Hine used his camera to document social welfare issues as a way to inform and mobilize the public into action.
#arthistory #art #Labor #LewisHine #photography

Lewis Hine was trained as a sociologist and he used his camera to document social welfare issues as a way to inform, and mobilize, the public into action. Working first as an educator and then as the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Hine compiled visual evidence of unsafe and unethical labor practices, often at great peril to himself. He photographed immigrants being processed through Ellis Island and then documented their living conditions in the tenements of New York City; he photographed the construction work at the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930-31; and he photographed the extensive use of child labor in mills, factories, fields and mines. His child labor photographs were instrumental in the passage of child and safe labor legislation that eventually was enacted in 1938. Pittston, where this photograph was taken, was a major hub in the anthracite coal business of northeastern Pennsylvania. A “breaker” was the building in which excavated lump coal was crushed into marketable size. A “breaker boy” was a young boy – usually between the ages of 8 and 15, but often younger – who sat beside the moving conveyor belt in the breaker and manually removed any impurities (slate or other rock) from the crushed coal as it poured out of the chute. The boys worked 10 hour days, 6 days a week; the average pay was 70 cents per day for a boy who had been at the job for a couple of years (starting pay was about 40 cents/day). Lewis Hine’s collection of photographs for the NCLC was donated to the Library of Congress in 1954; it consists of 5,000 photographs and 350 negatives.