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8 comments to "The Lewis Hine Project"
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jodie
January 17th, 2008 at
11:59 am
thank you for posting this. sad, fascinating and unbelievable. those poor kids and yet many of them are still smiling. they were certainly made out of different stuff back then.
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Dan
January 17th, 2008 at
12:14 pm
Very interesting read, but kinda creepy also.
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Shelby
January 17th, 2008 at
12:17 pm
Will someone please make a movie about this era?! Ken Burns, where are you?
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Sharon
January 17th, 2008 at
12:37 pm
As a love of geneology this was one of the most fascinating stories I’ve read. Thank you for posting this…very interesting in a sad kind of way.
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Christophe
January 17th, 2008 at
2:44 pm
I crisscrossed the Berkshires and VT region several times and really could see, touch, feel this neat story.
Amazing how a single photo lauched this modest woman into eternal remembrance.
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Sid Morrison
January 17th, 2008 at
3:42 pm
There are a bunch of wonderful Hine images on shorpy.com as well.
It’s fine to all pat ourselves on the back about how wonderful the world is without child labor, but remember, child labor is alive and well outside the Western world. There is a reason that the shoes we where are so inexpensive… Kids are still doing all the things they did in Hine photos (same ages and working conditions as well) only now it is in Red China, Vietnam, Honduras, Africa and a host of other places. The only difference is that the US factories where this used to take place have long been shuttered and we just import the same stuff.
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louisa
January 17th, 2008 at
10:45 pm
Thank you for posting this. Truly fascinating and heartbreaking. This is our history which no one wants to remember. Those of us who are old enough had grandparents and great grandparents who had to do the same things to survive.
Today we can’t get off our fat butts except to go to Walmart or Taco Bell wearing clothes and shoes made by children in Asia who are the same age as the kids in the photos as Sid mentioned.
Something is really wrong with this world.
I know I’m preaching to the choir. Just needed to rant.
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Alex
January 17th, 2008 at
11:17 pm
As a consumer, we have more power than any government to stop child labor - just insist that products are made in factories that don’t employ child labor/have humane working conditions/pay living wages, etc.
Oh, wait (checks cheap Wal-Mart shoes). Dammit, made in China … never mind!!!
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