The most impressive images of the life of American workers of the early 20th century

The famous American photographer Lewis Hine was born on September 26, 1874. At the beginning of the 20th century, he worked as a botany teacher in the Jewish-Slavic ghetto of New York. He began taking photographs in 1905, telling in photographs the fate of immigrants in the United States, showing their poverty, confusion and unrealistic hope for a better future - if not for himself, then at least for his children.

Lewis Hine's photographs were extremely popular. They were used to make lecture slides and huge posters, and they were printed in magazines, brochures, and books.

We have collected the best shots of Lewis Hine that made him world famous.

In 1908, Lewis Hine became a staff photographer for the American National Child Labor Committee, which launched the first campaign in US history against the exploitation of children in the workplace. For almost 10 years, the photographer traveled throughout the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, taking photographs of miners, weavers, longshoremen, stokers, farm laborers, and garbage collectors.

Under various pretexts - pretending to be an insurance agent, a merchant, a preacher, or, in extreme cases, an industrial photographer - he entered factories and factories where child labor was used.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Hine continued to cover working-class America.

This photograph remains one of the most famous and iconic in the history of American photography. However, its exact authorship has not yet been established - some historians and photography experts believe that this frame was created by Charles Ebbets.