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Mrs. Giuseppi (?) and Mrs. Di Angi (?), room 25, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y., finishing pants in dirty kitchen. Work lying around on the floor. Anaemic baby being cared for by neighbor child. Location: New York, New York (State) – Vintage Wall Art

Mrs. Giuseppi (?) and Mrs. Di Angi (?), room 25, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y., finishing pants in dirty kitchen. Work lying around on the floor. Anaemic baby being cared for by neighbor child. Location: New York, New York (State), 1912 March. — historic photograph
Mrs. Giuseppi (?) and Mrs. Di Angi (?), room 25, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y., finishing pants in dirty kitchen. Work lying around on the floor. Anaemic baby being cared for by neighbor child. Location: New York, New York (State), 1912 March.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

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Mrs. Giuseppi (?) and Mrs. Di Angi (?), room 25, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y., finishing pants in dirty kitchen. Work lying around on the floor. Anaemic baby being cared for by neighbor child. Location: New York, New York (State) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Mrs. Giuseppi (?) and Mrs. Di Angi (?), room 25, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y., finishing pants in dirty kitchen. Work lying around on the floor. Anaemic baby being cared for by neighbor child. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Room 25 at 2-4 Prince Street is the setting here, where two women, whose names the caption records only with question marks, finish trousers in a cramped, dirty kitchen. Garments lie scattered across the floor, and a pale, anemic baby is minded by a neighbor's young child while the work goes on. The picture is attributed to Lewis Hine, who documented tenement homework for the National Child Labor Committee in the years before World War I. Its March 1912 date places it during his most active investigation of how piecework in the clothing trade pulled whole households, children included, into long hours at home.

Created / published1912 March.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints
NotesTitle from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2885.
SubjectsWomen. Children. Laborers. Clothing industry. Tenement houses. Sewing. Home labor.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,077 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115268

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