USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lewis Hine, a New York City schoolteacher and photographer, believed that a picture could tell a powerful story. He felt so strongly about the abuse of children as workers that he quit his teaching job and became an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hine took photographs for the National Child Labor Committee from 1906 to 1918, documenting the large numbers of young people in the labor force and the harsh conditions under which they worked. His pictures attracted national attention and assisted in the passage of child labor laws.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hine’s searing images of those children remade the public perception of child labor and inspired the laws to ban it. Today, the Library of Congress maintains a collection of more than 5, 000 of Hine’s photographs, including the thousands he took for the National Child Labor Committee, known as the NCLC.