Introduction to the History of Photography

Child Factory Worker Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal [i.e., Pownal] Cotton Mill. Vt Child laborers in glassworks. Indiana, 1908 Baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from a glassmaking factory. Indiana, August 1908. Power house mechanic working on steam pump, 1920 Lunch time and Smoke 1930-1931 negative, gelatin on diacetate film 4x5 in Small group of immigrants landing at Ellis Island 1926 gelatin silver print 11.9 x 17.1 cm. Ellis Island - 1926 gelatin silver print 11.9 x 17.0 cm.

Dorothea Lange "Migrant Mother" 1936. The woman in the photo is Florence Owens Thompson. In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph: I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. source: Wikipedia Billboards on Highway 99, 1937 Children at the Weill public school in San Francisco pledge allegiance