Boy at planing machine, Ind[iana] Mfg. Co. Location: Peru, Indiana. – Antique Print
![Boy at planing machine, Ind[iana] Mfg. Co. Location: Peru, Indiana., 1908 October. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/92/9219dfd0ee70-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Boy at planing machine, Ind[iana] Mfg. Co. Location: Peru, Indiana., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Boy at planing machine, Ind[iana] Mfg. Co. Location: Peru, Indiana.
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A boy stands at a planing machine at the Indiana Manufacturing Company in Peru, Indiana, a small city on the Wabash River, in a picture dated October 1908. The National Child Labor Committee's caption card and the print's provenance link it to Lewis Hine, who photographed young workers for the committee in these years. Hine's pictures were meant to document children in mills, factories and other workplaces, and this one shows how close a young worker could stand to dangerous machinery.
| Created / published | 1908 October. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 0229. |
| Subjects | Boys. Child laborers. Industry. Machinery.United States--Indiana--Peru. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,072 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118528 |
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