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  1. Tenement Homework and the Exploitation of Child Labor
    date 1910map New York, New Yorktags Child Labor, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The image of a mother, father, and their three young children huddled around a small table in a dimly lit, overcrowded tenement tediously sewing garments into the early hours of the morning is not unique to the photographs captured by Lewis Hine. Hine's work often demonstrated the dignity of the worker, but reflected the purposes of those who hired him. Hines was surrounded by and influenced by the...

  2. Tenement Homework and the Exploitation of Child Labor
    date 1910map New York, New Yorktags Child Labor, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The image of a mother, father, and their three young children huddled around a small table in a dimly lit, overcrowded tenement tediously sewing garments into the early hours of the morning is not unique to the photographs captured by Lewis Hine. Hine's work often demonstrated the dignity of the worker, but reflected the purposes of those who hired him. Hines was surrounded by and influenced by the...

  3. Class Tensions Arise in the Markets of Hester Street
    date January 1, 1898map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Women, Progressive Reformers, Marketplace

    "The true heart of the Lower East Side beat in the street," and Hester Street was no exception. It served as the hub of life in the Lower East Side – teeming with women shopping, children playing and peddlers manning their pushcarts full of food. While the tenements towered high above blocking out the sky, the streets were overrun with peddlers and their pushcarts and their female clientele milling...

  4. The Dangers of Living on the Lower East Side
    date 1890 to 1910map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Immigration, City Life

    A mother anxiously calls out her children's names in the street. Her neighbors frantically stand at her side, their eyes darting back and forth across the busy streets looking for the lost little ones. Finally, what seems like hours later, there is a banging at the tenement door. It is a New York City policeman, toting the lost children by the hands. Historical photographer Lewis Wickes Hine...

  5. The Dangers of Living on the Lower East Side
    date 1890 to 1910map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Immigration, City Life

    A mother anxiously calls out her children's names in the street. Her neighbors frantically stand at her side, their eyes darting back and forth across the busy streets looking for the lost little ones. Finally, what seems like hours later, there is a banging at the tenement door. It is a New York City policeman, toting the lost children by the hands. Historical photographer Lewis Wickes Hine...

  6. The Dangers of Living on the Lower East Side
    date 1890 to 1910map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Immigration, City Life

    A mother anxiously calls out her children's names in the street. Her neighbors frantically stand at her side, their eyes darting back and forth across the busy streets looking for the lost little ones. Finally, what seems like hours later, there is a banging at the tenement door. It is a New York City policeman, toting the lost children by the hands. Historical photographer Lewis Wickes Hine...