Lewis Wickes Hine, 1874-1940, copyright George Eastman House, circa 1930
Lewis Hine, Breaker boys, Pittston, Pennsylvania coal mine
Click on this link to see many more of his remarkable photos that helped to change labor laws in the USA, despite strong opposition. The link to labor laws in the prior sentence dates the years in which state legislatures eventually and sometimes grudgingly ratified the law from 1924 to 1937.
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