Lewis Hine: photos of embroidery workers

_{Making embroidery. Upper East Side, N.Y. City. 1910 February by Lewis Hine}

_{309 W. 146th Street...Feb. 1912 by Lewis Hine}

Lewis Hine (1874-1940) was a New York City teacher and photographer.  He took photographs documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee. During the Depression, he worked for the Red Cross, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and served as chief photographer for the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) National Research Project. Photo collections:  NYPL,  George Eastman House, Library of Congress, UMBC, Shorpy

Some things change, some things remain unfortunately the same.