Research Catalog

Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States

Title
  1. Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Published by
  1. ca. 1900-1937.
Author
  1. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Council of National Defense.
  2. Milbank Memorial Fund.
  3. National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
  4. National Council of Defense.
  5. Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
  1. 104 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 24.3 x 19.3 cm. and smaller.
Summary
  1. Interior and exterior views concerning labor in various light and heavy industries, worker's housing and social conditions in the United States including Connecticut, Illinois, New England, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Subject
  1. Basements
  2. Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
  3. Hamilton Watch Company (Lancaster, Penna.)
  4. Silver gelatin photographic prints
  5. Photographic prints
  6. Portraits
  7. Landscapes
  8. Interiors
  9. Cityscapes
  10. Yonkers (N.Y.)
  11. Washington (D.C.)
  12. Virginia
  13. Tennessee
  14. South Carolina
  15. Scotland Neck (N.C.)
  16. Pittsburgh (Pa.)
  17. Philadelphia (Pa.)
  18. Pennsylvania
  19. Patterson (N.J.)
  20. North Carolina
  21. New York (State)
  22. New York (N.Y.)
  23. New Jersey
  24. New Haven (Conn.)
  25. New England
  26. Newark (N.J.)
  27. Nashville (Tenn.)
  28. Millville (N.J.)
  29. Maryland
  30. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
  31. Lancaster (Pa.)
  32. Illinois
  33. Georgia
  34. Connecticut
  35. Chicago (Ill.)
  36. Charleston (S.C.)
  37. Camden (N.J.)
  38. Bethlehem (Pa.)
  39. Alexandria (Va.)
  40. Wool industry
  41. Women
  42. Window displays
  43. Waterfronts
  44. War work
  45. Warehouses
  46. Uniforms
  47. Unemployed
  48. Trucks
  49. Tugboats
  50. Tuberculosis
  51. Tincups
  52. Textile mill workers
  53. Textile machinery
  54. Textile industry
  55. Testing
  56. Tenement houses
  57. Sugar industry
  58. Streets
  59. Stoves
  60. Steamboats
  61. Stables
  62. Spinning machinery
  63. Snowshoeing
  64. Silk industry
  65. Signs
  66. Sick persons
  67. Shellfish industry
  68. Sewing machines
  69. Scientific equipment
  70. Salvage
  71. Religious articles
  72. Ramps
  73. Railroad construction & maintenance
  74. Railroad employees
  75. Ragpicking
  76. Radio industry
  77. Product inspections
  78. Printing presses
  79. Printing
  80. Poor persons
  81. Police
  82. Piers & wharves
  83. Peddlers
  84. Pawnshops
  85. Ovens
  86. Organ grinders
  87. Occupations
  88. Nursing
  89. Nurseries
  90. Newspaper carriers
  91. Mothers & children
  92. Men
  93. Mechanics (Persons)
  94. Measuring
  95. Marine terminals
  96. Markets
  97. Mannequins
  98. Luggage
  99. Longshoremen
  100. Loading docks
  101. Light fixtures
  102. Libraries
  103. Letter carriers
  104. Lamps
  105. Laboratories
  106. Kindergartens
  107. Infants
  108. Industrial buildings
  109. Immigrants
  110. Ice cream & ices
  111. Hosiery industry
  112. Horses
  113. Home labor
  114. Hats
  115. Glassworking
  116. Glass industry
  117. Glassblowing
  118. General stores
  119. Gangs
  120. Furniture industry
  121. Food industry
  122. African Americans
  123. Ammunition
  124. Arms & Armaments
  125. Artificial flower industry
  126. Bakeries
  127. Barbershops
  128. Barns
  129. Baseball
  130. Bedrooms
  131. Beggars
  132. Bicycle shops
  133. Blind persons
  134. Bread & soup lines
  135. Business enterprises
  136. Cabinet making
  137. Canals
  138. Card games
  139. Carpenter shops
  140. Carpenters
  141. Carriages & coaches
  142. Carts & wagons
  143. Checkers
  144. Chewing gum industry
  145. Child labor
  146. Children
  147. Children & adults
  148. Children playing outdoors
  149. Children praying
  150. Children reading
  151. Children's clothing & dress
  152. Cigar industry
  153. City & town life
  154. Classrooms
  155. Cleaning establishments
  156. Clock & watch industry
  157. Clock & watch making
  158. Clocks & watches
  159. Clothing & dress
  160. Clothing industry
  161. Coal miners
  162. Coal mining
  163. Confectioneries
  164. Cotton industry
  165. Dwellings
  166. Educational buildings
  167. Engineering
  168. Families
  169. Farm life
  170. Fathers & children
  171. Fences
Genre/Form
  1. Cityscapes.
  2. Interiors.
  3. Landscapes.
  4. Portraits.
  5. Photographic prints.
  6. Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Call number
  1. MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
Note
  1. Collection stamps, paper labels verso some items; Collection stamps recto below and/or on image lower right.
  2. Institutional stamps from "The National Child Labor Committee", "The National Council of Defense" and "The Milbank Memorial Fund" verso on some items.
  3. Photographer's stamps verso on some items.
  4. Titles, captions, subject designations, negative numbers, photographer's credits and dates inscribed in pencil and/or ink, verso, recto on or below image lower right on some items.
  5. Title devised by cataloger.
  6. "Injury noted" stamps, verso on some items.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Cite as (note)
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Provenance (note)
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Author
  1. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
Title
  1. Photographs concerning labor, housing and social conditions in the United States [graphic] / Lewis Wickes Hine.
Imprint
  1. ca. 1900-1937.
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite as:
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding aids
  1. Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Local subject
  1. Hamilton Watch Company (Lancaster, Penna.)
  2. Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Added author
  1. Council of National Defense.
  2. Milbank Memorial Fund.
  3. National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
  4. National Council of Defense.
  5. Romana Javitz Collection.
Research call number
  1. MFZ (Hine) 93-6224
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