A group of sweatshop workers. Mr. Silberman, 30 Suffolk St. Photo taken after 3 P.M. February 21st, 1908, Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State) / by Lewis W. Hine. – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of A group of sweatshop workers. Mr. Silberman, 30 Suffolk St. Photo taken after 3 P.M. February 21st, 1908, Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State) / by Lewis W. Hine.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A group of sweatshop workers. Mr. Silberman, 30 Suffolk St. Photo taken after 3 P.M. February 21st, 1908, Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State) / by Lewis W. Hine.
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Taken at 30 Suffolk Street on the Lower East Side, this 1908 view shows workers at their sewing in the Silberman shop, photographed after 3 P.M. on February 21, with Mrs. Lillian Hosford named as witness. Lewis W. Hine made the picture while documenting tenement homework and garment sweatshops for the National Child Labor Committee, which used such images to press for reform in New York's crowded immigrant neighborhoods. The album label "Tenement homework" points to a common arrangement in which families stitched garments in their own apartments, often for contractors who paid by the piece.
| Created / published | 1908 February 21. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 0026-A. |
| Subjects | Women. Men. Clothing industry. Laborers. Sweatshops. Sewing.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115270 |
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