Photograph, Print, or Drawing (Part of Collection)[National Child Labor Committee collection]
Personal name
Main title
- [National Child Labor Committee collection] [graphic].
Published/Created
- [1908-1924]
Links
Links
- Search for National Child Labor Committee images in Prints & Photographs Online Catalog http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
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Description
- 21 albums (ca. 5,100 photographic prints) ; albums 27 x 30 cm.
- 355 negatives : glass ; negatives 10 x 15 cm and 13 x 18 cm (4 x 6 and 5 x 7 format)
Rights advisory
- No known restrictions on publication.
Access advisory
- For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.
LC classification
- Guide Record
Other title
- Lewis Hine collection [graphic]
Related names
Biography/History note
- Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The Library has attributed all the photographs in the National Child Labor Committee Collection to Lewis Hine unless the collection caption card explicitly identified another photographer.
Organized/Arranged
- The NCLC prints came to the Library in twenty-one albums that Library staff clustered into nine groups (called LOTs) by subject matter. Each LOT consists of one or more albums. The LOTs bear location numbers from LOT 7475 to LOT 7483. Within each album, the prints are in order by the original number assigned to the image at the NCLC. Each LOT is separately cataloged.
Summary
- Photographs focusing on children, showing workers, working and living conditions, and educational settings in the United States between 1908 and 1924. Images depict working conditions in agriculture, home labor, street trades, and various other industries, including, mining, canneries, glass factories, and cotton mills. Photographs also show recreational activities, victims of work-related accidents, health care activities, and images representing protests of child labor practices. Included are photographs of cartoons and clippings.
Other Subjects
- Child labor--United States--1900-1930.
- Children--Social life--United States--1900-1930.
- Children--Health & welfare--United States--1900-1930.
- Children--Education--United States--1900-1930.
- Industry--United States--1900-1930.
- Agriculture--United States--1900-1930.
- Home labor--United States--1900-1930.
Form/Genre
Browse by shelf order
Notes
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Caption cards, from NCLC, accompany the photographs.
- Records of the National Child Labor Committee were given to the Library of Congress Manuscript Division in 1954 by Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, chief executive of the NCLC, in celebration of NCLC's fiftieth anniversary. The Manuscript Division then transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division the photographs (arranged in 21 albums), negatives, and caption cards.
- Forms part of: Records of the National Child Labor Committee, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
References
- Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, pp. 145-146.
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 169
Acquisition source
- Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1954.
Collection
Additional formats
- Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
- Also available on microfilm in the Prints & Photographs Division reading room; microfilmed in 1983 by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
LCCN
- 2004674308
Geographic area code
- n-us---
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Type of material
- Photograph, Print, or Drawing (Part of Collection)
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
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- Prints & Photographs Reading Room (Madison, LM337)
Status
- Not Charged
