Child_labor reform photos

Objective Assessment

As you view each photograph take note about what you see. (note people, background, objects) Pretend you were describing the image to someone who could not see it. Try to avoid making judgments. Where are these children?

List any clues relating to their surroundings.


Describe any tools or objects you see.


Describe their clothing. What do their clothes reveal about their work?

Subjective Assessment


What questions do you have about each of these photographs?


Based on your observations, list three things you might infer about the lives of these children. (Be sure to consider Hine's notes about the photographs when considering this.

Photograph A


The young child is in a cotton mill. She is near a window and also near a sowing machine. Her clothes are ditry and worn out.


I would say that one thing that can be infered from the photograph. One is her family is poor because she is to young to work and she still does.


Photograph B


The children are relativly young and they are in front of a manufactoring company. Their clothers are dirty, grimy, and worn out. The clothes so that the work is hard and grueling.


I wonder what the home life of the girls are because of the fact that the work shift is probably ending and the home life of the girls would desicribe the mood of each.

Photograph C

The young girl is in the middle of a row of sowimg machines. The sowing machines looked worn and used and have material in them. Her clothes are still kind of clean which shows she hasn't been working long.

Yah the girl "walked" in. More like the managers were pressering parents to send their kids to work to make extra money. Also I wonder if Lewis Hine. This photo can be used to infer a few things. The first is that the young girl's family needs money so they send her to work. It also shows that the overseers are playing on the people's need for money to buy the basic living essentials that they are getting workers for cheap labor.

Photograph D

This young boy is sitting on a lampost in the middle of the street. The boy's clothes are hidden by the newspapers he is trying to sell.

I wonder why a kid that young is working buy selling newspapers. The answer is probably that his family needs the money.

Photograph E

These kids are in a building with coal dust everywhere. The man in the backround is beating them with a stick or his foot or somthing else. Their clothes are covered in coal dust and are really worn out.

I wonder why any parent would send their kids to a coal mine to work. They could die or develop life threatening conditions. I also wonder why the parents don't pull their kids out of their to protect their kids from the beatings. No money is worth that.

Photograph F

These kids are in a glass working factory. They have many tools which are probably used to do their job. One of the kids shit is really ripped in the back and that shows that the work is hard and possible dangerous.

I can see that the kids are working late so that shows that they are probably forced to work overtime for no extra pay like most people were forced to do.

Photograph G

These kids are in an osyter chucking factory. They are in front of a converor belt of some sort. Their clothes differ but are dirty.

I can see three things that can be infered. The first is that the families need their kids to work so they can make enough money to get buy. Second is that they work long hours told by the description. Third is that they need the smallest and the youngest of kids to work. Toddlers probably worked.

Photograph H

The kids in this photo are in front of a door of a factory of some sort and they are going to work the night shift. Their clothes are dingy and they look like they are well worn.

I wonder why the parents would let their kids work the night shift. Mabye it was so they could go to school the next day but that would make sence because then they would never ever sleep. I also wonder why the dad in the description is making his daughters do the work instead of himself. I think he is lazy and so does Lewis Hine because he directly the dad is lazy.

TR's Square Deal

1. How did Roosevelt create the modern presidency?
He was the first one to care about the people and he wanted to help the people any way he could.
2. How did Roosevelt's intervention in a coal strike set a precedent for federal arbitration?
He threatened to take over the coal mines so that the owners would have to negotiate with the workers or lose all they had. There for from that point on if a strike happened the government was supposed to intervein.
3. What did Roosevelt do to the trusts and railroads?
He tried to disban the trusts by using the Sherman Antitrust act. He helped make the Elkin Act of 1903 and the Hepburn act of 1906 which gave the federal power a lot of power over the railroads.
4. What legislation passed during Roosevelt's presidency protected citizens?
He helped pass the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act which made food safer and medicne safer.
5. What did Roosevelt do to protect the environment?
He set aside land for national parks. He set aside land for the perpose of people to appreciate.

Urbanzation

1. What is Urbanization?
Urbanization is the growth of cities.

2. For what reasons did a number of Americans move from the country to the cities?
Americans moved from the rural areas to the cities for a few reasons. First with farming inventions like the McCormick reaper and the steel plow less people were needed to make the same amount of product. So farms started to combine with one another. So less workers were needed which meant less jobs and people have to work to make money so they moved to the cities were their was always work because of the huge amount of mills and factories.

3. What were the housing problems that many poor city dwellers faced?
Since the houses or apartments were old they were really bad. Also there was not much garbage pick up so they dumped their garbage down the air shafts which attacted vermin like rats which fouled the air. Then they boarded up the air shafts which cut off their supply of air. Their water was poluted so it wasn't exactly safe. The sanitation was horrible because it wasn't properly cleaned up. Their was also a high chance of fire becasue of the amount of wooden buildings and that there was not much water to fight the fires with.