Lewis Hine: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Verna Posever Curtis and Stanley Mallach, Photography and Reform: Lewis Hine & the National Child Labor Committee (1984); Russell Freedman, Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor (1998); Vicki Goldberg, Lewis W. Hine: Children at Work (1999); Richard Worth, Lewis Hine: Photographer of Americans at Work (2008).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Oct 30, 2025
Anniversary information added. Sep 22, 2025
Added slideshow of select images from the work Child Labor in the Carolinas. Mar 28, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 13, 2024
Modified link of Web site: International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum - Lewis Hine. Apr 05, 2022
Noted that his work helped usher in federal regulations on working conditions. Oct 07, 2019
Add new Web site: Smithsonian American Art Museum - Biography of Lewis W. Hine. Feb 07, 2019
Add new Web site: Artnet - Biography of Lewis Hine. Feb 07, 2019
Add new Web site: International Center of Photography - Biography of Lewis Wickes Hine. Dec 28, 2016
Add new Web site: International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum - Lewis Hine. Jun 06, 2014
Add new Web site: The Getty - Biography of Lewis Wickes Hine. Feb 19, 2013
Title changed to Lewis W. Hine. Jun 18, 2009
Article revised and updated. Jun 18, 2009
New bibliography added. Jun 18, 2009
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Lewis Hine. Sep 28, 2006
Added new Web site: The New York Public Library Photography Collection - Lewis Wickes Hine's. Sep 11, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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