Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
Hine in c. 1930
Brooklyn Museum – Climbing into the Promised Land Ellis Island – Lewis Wickes Hine
Child laborers in glasswork. Indiana, 1908
Little Lottie, a regular oyster shucker in Alabama Canning Co. (Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 1911)
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Ethical Culture Fieldston School (ECFS), also known as Fieldston, is a private pre-K–12th grade coeducational school in New York City with two campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx. The school is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. The school serves approximately 1,700 students with 480 faculty and staff.
Workingmen's school in 1893
Ethical Culture in New York City
Felix Adler, c. 1913