Lewis W. Hines studied at Chicago and New York University and became a teacher, but soon quite so he could become a photographer and photograph for the National Child Labor Committee. While reading the informational page, there were a few things that I found meaningful. For example how there were laws as early as 1830, restricting or even prohibiting children from working, yet it didn’t actually help children or families in rural communities because “child labor on the farm(s) was common”. People would often turn a blind eye when seeing children working in factories or mills because of this, it’s just sad to think about. Another meaningful thing I learned was how Hine would visit mills or factories and a majority of the time the owners would try and hide the children and tell him that they just snuck in, or there …show more content…
Honestly looking at these photo’s that Hine took was a lot harder than I anticipated. You can read about child labor and social reform in that time period, and you can listen to people lecture about it all you want but something about visualizing what was actually going on, and picturing what these children were going through, just make me as a student understand the importance of it so much more. Every single one of these photos were remarkable in demonstrating the need for change, the one I thought personally, showed this the most was the picture of the newsboy asleep on the steps. This little boy looked only about six years old and was clearly so tired from working that he just fell asleep where ever he was; at an age like that I couldn’t even imagine having to work long hours to have to help support my family. Now a day’s little kids are so precious and there health is so precious that it’s just painful to even see how young life was once treated. Another really