Artworks · Lewis W. Hine

Icarus, Empire State Building

1930 · Gelatin silver print

9.1 x 11.5 cm (3 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Morning Attendance at the Mill School, Huntsville, Alabama

1913 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in. (11.3 × 16.4 cm) Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in. (12.5 × 17.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dannie Mercurio, 150 Schottes Alley, Washington D.C.

1912 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 17.1 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Paper: 17.6 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

11:00 A.M. Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

1910 · Gelatin silver print

9.1 x 11.9 cm (3 9/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and now would "stay". Location: Vermont

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.4 x 19.3 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.) Sheet: 25.4 x 20.4 cm (10 x 8 1/16 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Italian Family, Chicago

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.6 × 17 cm (4 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Slums

1910 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 11.7 × 16.4 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston

1909 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 12.3 × 17.2 cm (4 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper

1909 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 17.5 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.); Paper: 17.7 × 12.6 cm (7 × 5 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina

1908 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 11.6 × 15.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ivey Mill, Hickory, N.C. Little one, 3 years old, who visits and plays in the mill. Daughter of the overseer.

1908 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.7 x 16.9 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Italian Family Seeking Lost Luggage, Ellis Island

1905 · Gelatin silver print

19 13/16 x 15 7/8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1905 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11.7 × 16.9 cm (4 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago