This lot comes with a letter addressed to the Broxton Gallery in California, describing these works as "made by Lewis Hine beginning in 1908 as a record of child labor conditions in the United States.

We need him now more than ever … or at least someone like him. A champion of social reform, photographer Lewis Hine (1874-1940), armed with only a camera, became a weapon of truth in uncovering the ...

Between 1904 and 1926, the American photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940) photographed countless newcomers at the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor. While there, he trained his lens on ...

Art Photographer as Advocate: Lewis Hine’s America Odds are that when you close your eyes and imagine the huddled masses at Ellis Island, or brawny men at derricks hoisting iron bars to the top of the ...

Running footsteps and shouting greet you on the stairs as you walk up to the Short Pay! All Out! Exhibit, even if you are all alone in the stairwell. You are making your way against a historic wave of ...

The question was: Whatever happened to that girl? Her name was Eva Tanguay. And she was a “doffer in [the] spinning room of Ayer mill,” according to social reformer Lewis Hine, who photographed her ...

Ever since we mentioned that Massachusetts historian Joe Manning has been tracking down the Dallas newsies and other child laborers captured by Lewis Wickes Hine in Dallas in October 1913, several ...

Photographer Alan Sislen, Pride and Belonging in African Art, and a celebration of the most influential women artists of the 20th and 21st centuries are among the most exciting exhibits this spring.