Lewis Hine Photographs

[Digswithstick]

Great photos thanks for link!

 

[surfaceone]

How'd you dew dat Drew? WTG!

 

[capsoda]

Dang!!!! That looks like Charlie (cyberdigger)!!!!!!

Wouldn't want to get caught in one of those bottle machines. Looks like it could snatch parts offin ya.

 

[RedGinger]

Are any of these pre-1900? I would love to see some pictures from that time.

 

[surfaceone]

Are any of these pre-1900?  I would love to see some pictures from that time.

Hello Lauren,

Lewis Hine began taking photographs in 1904. His lifetime and career dovetailed with the earlier pioneer Jacob Riis, and the subsequent, Walker Evans. Quite a triumverate of American Photography to my way of thinking.

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera." Lewis Hine

"Bandit's Roost by Jacob Riis, c.1888 From here.

Evans' image of Allie Mae Burroughs, c.1935-1936 From WikiEvans.

An early cabinet card portrait of Lewis Hine, c.1885. From Eastman House.

There's a lot of information and a tremendous amount of Hine's photographs on line. Some of his work in the glasssmaking world has been previously linked. There is considerably more, also in allied fields. Hine's Wikipage is not a bad place to start, if you are interested in learning more about his life. There's a bunch of YouTube productions on his work. The first, YouTube #1 has a nice score, while YouTube #2 presents more images from the glass houses with an informative, yet annoyingly pitched voiceover.

WARNING...Dial up users may wanna skip this next part...WARNING...Perhaps too late, but a warning just the same...

Lewis Hine, October 1908. "Citizens Glass Co., Evansville, Indiana. Over ten small boys on day shift in one department." From here.

Lewis Hine, Noon hour at the Woodbury Bottle Works in Woodbury, New Jersey. November 1909. From here.

Lewis Hine, November 1909. Blowing bottles. Night shift at the Cumberland Glass Works in Bridgeton, New Jersey. From here.

Lewis Hine, November 1909. "Night scene, Wheaton Glass Works." Blowing bottles in Millville, New Jersey. From here.

Lewis Hine, November 1912. Central Falls, Rhode Island. View of privies, garbage dumps, etc., in back yards near Bed-bug Alley and High Street. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine for the Child Welfare Exhibit of 1912-13. Found here. A photo that I hope will appeal to the diggers, hereabouts.

Perhaps some of you, who are more knowledgeable than I, will contribute a commentary on the glass making scenes.

 

[RedGinger]

This one is pretty cool too!

 

[surfaceone]

This one is pretty cool too!

Is that Matthew Brady's view of the "Chain Bridge" crossing the Potomac, from his Civil War portfolio?

 

[RedGinger]

I wanted to go back and add the text, but my computer locked up. I believe that was it, surfaceone. It is from 1865, which blows my mind.

 

[RedGinger]

LA 1899. I looked at the full size, and it's probably just my eyes, but I can't find the outhouse.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/7259

Got it, you have to scroll down.

 

[RedGinger]

Warning, this is a full size picture. I can't get enough of these outhouses!