Lewis Hine

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Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.

Literature
  • Judith Mara Gutman, Lewis W. Hine and the American Social Conscience, New York: Walker, 1967.
  • Peter Seixas, "Lewis Hine: From "Social" to "Interpretive" Photographer", American Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3 (Autumn, 1987): 381-409 [1].
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Russell Freeman 
Kids 
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Work:
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 Hine
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Crusade 
Against
 Child 
Labor", Houghton 
Mifflin, 
1998; New York: Clarion Books, New York, 1994.
  • Tom Hankin, "Put an End to the Exploitation of Child Labor", Pictures of child labor by Lewis W. Hine, ISA Today (magazine), Jan. 1996: 73-75.
  • Klara-Stephanie Szlezák, "The Ellis Island Experience: Through the Eyes of Lewis Hine", as|peers 2, 2009: 71-89.
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