"We give them houses to live in."
- Title:
- "We give them houses to live in."
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
Inequality and legacies of discrimination - Creator:
- Hine, Lewis
- Creation Date:
- 1912
- ID Number:
- 2006.100.003
- File Name:
- 2006.100.003.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Cannery workers
Oyster industry
Labor housing
United States--South Carolina--Port Royal
child labor
children - Measurement:
- 8.9 x 11.4 (Overall) (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- About a dozen shacks and lean-tos made from plank scraps, and without a square angle between them, sitting on rocky and shell-covered ground. Some of the shacks are built against a long, low wooden building with a saggy roof and two brick chimneys, while a few small structures are free-standing. Some appear to be partly roofed with tarps. A haphazard pile of pickets and lumber scraps is in the right foreground. About 50 people lived in these shacks.
- Notes:
- Part of Hine's work for the National Child Labor Committee. A print of this image is included in the album "Canneries. Child labor at factories, primarily in the Northeast and Southeast United States," held in the Library of Congress.
Other prints by Hine held in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art collection. - Cite As:
- Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940), "We give them houses to live in.", 1912. Gelatin silver print, overall: 8.9 x 11.4 cm. Gift of Martin Z. Margulies, 2006.100.003.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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