Lewis Hine

[Christel]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17673213


Awesome photography by Lewis Hine, massive influence on social reform in the US.

Check out the "robotics" working on the assembly line at 2.29 in the clip. Weird to see in black and white, didn't think it was that early in use.

[targetman]

Christel......thanks for that link....superb.

I saw some of these photos and many like it at Ellis Island a few years back......what fascinated me was the fact that among those imigrants were members of my own family from Ireland, my Grandparents and my Uncles, who settled in Manhhatten. My wife's two Uncles too, who settled in Oklahoma.

Lewis Hine also recorded some amazing photos in the Deep South of the USA, we saw those and hundreds of others at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.......a truly moving experience......the inhumanity of man to his fellow man has to be seen to be believed.

[bobbob]

I recently made contact with a distant cousin in the States. Her grandfather went to Buffalo, New York at the age of 14 in 1886, with his three younger siblings. He became a lieutenant on the Buffalo Police Force. His younger brother also became a police officer and was the first officer killed in the line of duty in Buffalo. They left Ireland for a better life, I think they found it.