Noon. Girl entering the factory door, 526 W. Broadway, with artificial flowers made at home. Location: New York, New York (State) – Antique Wall Art
(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 Noon. Girl entering the factory door, 526 W. Broadway, with artificial flowers made at home. Location: New York, New York (State) in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Noon. Girl entering the factory door, 526 W. Broadway, with artificial flowers made at home. Location: New York, New York (State)
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Shot at noon in February 1912, this view shows a girl walking through the door of a factory at 526 West Broadway in Manhattan, her arms full of artificial flowers she had made at home. It belongs to a group of pictures Lewis Hine made of tenement homework, where families, often including children, assembled petals, leaves and stems for piecework pay. Hine, who documented child labor for the National Child Labor Committee, used scenes like this to show how work spilled out of factories and into crowded apartments. The attribution rests on the picture's provenance rather than a signature, so the caption is worth reading with that in mind.
| Created / published | 1912 February. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2834. |
| Subjects | Girls. Child laborers. Lifting & carrying. Artificial flower industry. Factories.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129560 |
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