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Anyway, I thought history buffs and fans of photojournalism would find this interesting. This is a link to the website of Joe Manning, a photographer and historian who has started the Lewis Hine project. Lewis Hine, for those who don't know, was one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. During the early 1900s he was hired by the national child labor board to travel throughout the US documenting cases of child labor. His images are haunting. The above link takes you to a photo that he took of my great grandmother at the age of 13 in a southern textile mill. She was identified by family members when Mr. Manning put the photo in local papers. His project seeks to find the families of unidentified children in many of the photos. If you get a chance read a bit about Joe's project and take a look at Lewis Hine's photos on the site. They're amazing.
I book marked it, I love Lewis Hine, most famous for those pics of the Empire States Building guys having lunch on the beams above New York. How interesting to find your ancestors in a pic.
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I hope this link works....
Anyway, I thought history buffs and fans of photojournalism would find this interesting. This is a link to the website of Joe Manning, a photographer and historian who has started the Lewis Hine project. Lewis Hine, for those who don't know, was one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. During the early 1900s he was hired by the national child labor board to travel throughout the US documenting cases of child labor. His images are haunting. The above link takes you to a photo that he took of my great grandmother at the age of 13 in a southern textile mill. She was identified by family members when Mr. Manning put the photo in local papers. His project seeks to find the families of unidentified children in many of the photos. If you get a chance read a bit about Joe's project and take a look at Lewis Hine's photos on the site. They're amazing.