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By DJM · published August 17, 2026 · Still · 6 slides, at your own pace · Edited Oct 6
Fire inspector. Bible salesman. Postcard vendor. Whatever got Lewis Hine through the door. How a camera, and a few good disguises, helped end child labor in America.
Lewis Hine spent over a decade photographing child labor across America, in cotton mills, coal mines, canneries, city streets. This boy, Tony Casale, 11 years old, had been selling newspapers for 4 years when this photo was taken.
Tony Casale, "Bologna," Hartford, Connecticut, March 1909
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