An Indiana Glass Works and some of its workers. Location: Indiana. – Vintage Print
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An Indiana Glass Works and some of its workers. Location: Indiana. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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An Indiana Glass Works and some of its workers. Location: Indiana.
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Few details survive beyond the caption card, which names an Indiana glass works and the workers gathered there in August 1908. The picture belongs to a series of glass factory views that Lewis Hine made that year for the National Child Labor Committee, which documented young laborers in American industry. Glass houses of the period often employed boys to carry hot ware between furnaces and annealing ovens, a job the series returns to repeatedly. No city is recorded, so the exact works remains unidentified, but the scene reflects Indiana's substantial glass industry in the years around 1900.
| Created / published | 1908 August. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 0127. No city recorded on caption card. |
| Subjects | Factories Glass industry GlassworkersUnited States--Indiana. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,102 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114185 |
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