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#81. Typical Night Scene In an Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana. – Antique Print

#81. Typical Night Scene In an Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana., 1908 August. — historic photograph
#81. Typical Night Scene In an Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana., 1908 August.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures #81. Typical Night Scene In an Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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#81. Typical Night Scene In an Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana.

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Among Lewis Hine's 1908 glassworks pictures, this night view stands out for its dark plant and the boys who work in its glow. Hine traveled that year for the National Child Labor Committee to document young workers in glass houses, where furnaces ran around the clock and boys often carried hot pieces to annealing ovens. The caption card records no city, so the exact factory is unidentified, and the attribution to Hine rests on the album in which the print was kept. Night shifts like this one drew attention from reformers pressing for limits on child labor in the period.

Created / published1908 August.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints.
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 0081. No city recorded on caption card.
SubjectsBoys Glassworkers Glassworking Glass industry FactoriesUnited States--Indiana.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,066 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116558

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