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| Richard Pierce 14 Years of Age |
Richard Pierce - 14 years of age, works as a Western Union Telegraph Messenger. with nine months of service. He works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Delaware, ca. May 1910
Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 - November 3, 1940) is an American photographer. A photographer known for his photographs of industrial workers and immigrants.
In 1874 he was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After his father had died, he had to work at the age of 18 and save money for his studies. Hine trained at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University as sociology students. He then taught at the Ethical Culture School in New York. In 1905 he visited Ellis Island in New York and photographed thousands of immigrants.
In 1908, Hine became a photographer of the National Committee of Children's Workers and was tasked with studying the situation of children's work in the United States. He portrayed the working and living conditions of the child-aged children who were still working with photographs, and prepared a detailed report on their rights.
Towards the end of World War I, he worked in Europe with the Kiosk organization. He especially took pictures of children in the Balkans. After returning to New York, he documented the construction of the Empire State Building. To be able to take photographs, Henry struggled to take the best photographs in dangerous positions, hung up on the iron and steel scaffolding of the building.
In the rest of his life he worked on the government's projects and lost his life in New York in 1940 at the age of 66.
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