I’d been looking through NYPL’s Digital Gallery for class (I’m doing a magazine spread on Art Nouveau) when I found this collection of Lewis Wickes Hine’s photos. He documented child labor, Ellis Island Immigrants, working and domestic conditions in America between 1905-1938. These photos are beautiful because they are a dark part of our history.
A family of seven sons and one daughter, Ellis Island, New York (1904-1926, some printed later)
Jennie is 51 inches tall…, December 1908 (1908)
Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches tall…, November 1908 [Cotton mills N-362] (1908)
Cool beans, but I was distracted by the acronym for NYPL. (read as nipple) hee hee, I’m twelve…
Oooooo! That makes me happy! That’s one of the few times I didn’t catch one of those…