ummary
Photographs show boys and some men in mine interiors and exteriors in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Tennessee, as well as boys involved in zinc mining in Auora, Missouri. Includes documentation of work related injuries, as well as mining equipment and conditions. Also includes a photograph showing conflicting information on one worker's baptismal record versus what was stated on his age certificate, to show how his age was falsified.
Contributor Names
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), funder/sponsor
Created / Published
1908-1911.
Subject Headings
- Child labor--United States--1900-1920
- Coal mining--United States--1900-1920
- Zinc mining--United States--1900-1920
- Mine accidents--United States--1900-1920
Headings
Group portraits--1900-1920.
Photograph albums--1900-1920.
Photographic prints--1900-1920.
Portrait photographs--1900-1920.
Notes
- Arrangement: Photographs arranged in general chronological sequence by original inventory numbers assigned by Hine. These numbers are printed on album pages next to each image.
- LOT title devised by Library staff.
- "Coal mines. Photographs by Lewis W. Hine for National Child Labor Committee, New York, New York" typed on album pg. [2]
- No captions on the images. Corresponding Hine caption cards provide identifying information for photographs.
- Hine negative numbers (prefixes LC-H5 or LC-H51) appear next to those photographs for which original negatives still exist.
- Forms part of the National Child Labor Committee Collection (Library of Congress).
- Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
- Also available on microfilm in the Prints & Photographs Division reading room; microfilmed in 1983 by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
- Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1954.
Medium
1 album (100 photographic prints) ; 27 x 30 cm. (album)
Call Number/Physical Location
LOT 7477 (F) (M) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
https://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/nclcquery.html
Library of Congress Control Number
2004674300
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory
For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items
Online Format
image
LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/2004674300
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