Lewis Hine Project Lecturer to Visit Library in March!

Join is as we welcome Joe Manning to  discuss The Lewis Hine Project: Tracking down the lives of child laborers on Thursday, March 6th at 6:30pm.

Sponsored by the Jeffrey and Susan Lalonde Community Betterment Fund

For more than seven years, Joe Manning has been identifying some of the more than 5,000 child laborers that were photographed in the early 1900s by Lewis Hine, and then tracking down and interviewing their descendants. So far, he has been successful at telling the stories of more than 300 children, thus answering many times over the proverbial question, “Whatever happened to that child?” Hine was on a mission. He wanted to eradicate child labor in the United States, a practice that had existed since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and was rampant in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The National Child Labor Committee hired him in 1908 to take photographs of the children in or near their workplaces, in order to expose their plight to as many influential people as possible. Hine did that for the next 10 years.

Manning will show some of these historic photographs, tell the stories of the children in them, and talk about the exciting process of searching for descendants, most of whom were not aware of the pictures of their parents or grandparents. Some of the stories at this presentation will be about children who were photographed in New England. Information about Manning’s Lewis Hine Project can be seen at this link on his website. www.MorningsOnMapleStreet.com/LewisHine.html

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