During the Great Depression of the 1930s, American photographer Lewis W. Hine worked for several gov
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, American photographer Lewis W. Hine worked for several government agencies, including the Works Project Administration’s National Research Project. Hine traveled throughout the northeast United States for the NRP and took over 700 photographs of men and women in their workplaces, from farms and mines to factories. He photographed this young woman in Holyoke, Massachusetts, at William Skinner and Sons, a large manufacturer of silk thread and textiles. In her focus and seriousness as she monitors a large bank of bobbins, she is at once a specific individual and a personification of American labor.Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940). [Untitled] (Women in Bobbin Aisle), 1936-1937. Gelatin silver photograph, 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (18.4 x 12.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the National Archives, 79.143.16 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 79.143.16_bw.jpg). -- source link
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