Born
in 1874, Lewis Hine was raised in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
and briefly studied at the University of Chicago in
1900, where he took his first photo class. His career
focused on major three issues - "Ellis Island
Immigrants" "Child Labor" and his "Men at Work"
series Hine documented child labor in American
industry to aid the NCLC's lobbying efforts to end the
practice.
Between 1906 -1908 he was a freelance
photographer for The Survey, a leading social reform
magazine. He took all these pictures to show the
country the cruelties of child labor
