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Original - Baseball team composed mostly of child workers from a glassmaking factory. Indiana, August 1908.
Reason
Lewis Hine was a photographer who worked during the early twentieth century to effect social change by documenting conditions, particularly among factories and child laborers. It's unclear whether this was a really tough baseball team, or a street gang that played some baseball: the long object at left is a firearm, not a bat. Yet each boy's face shows a different personality. An unusually good group portrait.
Articles this image appears in
Lewis Hine, Timeline of young people's rights in the United States
Creator
Lewis Hine

Promoted File:Baseball_glass_workers2.jpg --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:21, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]