The impact of these images, by photographer Lewis Hine, were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the U.S.
Date: June 1910
Location: Seaford, Delaware.
The photo shows Daisy Langford, an 8-year-old who works at Ross' canneries. She helps at the capping machine, but is not able to "keep up." So she places caps on the cans at the rate of about 40 per minute working full time. That was her first season at the cannery.
Via: Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
Date: August 1908
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Young workers at the Indianapolis Furniture Factory.
Via: Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
Date: September 1908
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Lawrence J. Hill, 17 years old, had four fingers mashed off by stamping machine in a lamp factory.
Via: Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
Date: October 1908
Location: West Virginia
Two boys working at Lehr glass works.
Via: Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
