A
baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from an Indiana glassmaking factory, as photographed by
Lewis Hine in August 1908. Hine (1874–1940) was an
American sociologist who promoted the use of
photography as an educational medium and means for social change. Beginning in 1908, he spent ten years photographing
child labor for the
National Child Labor Committee. The project was a dangerous one, and Hine had to disguise himself – at times as a fire inspector, post card vendor, Bible salesman or industrial photographer – to avoid the factory police and foremen.
Photograph: Lewis Hine; restoration: Lise Broer