Civarro family,2106 Second Avenue,New York,Lewis Wickes Hine,May 1917

Title: Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patriotic flag pins. They get 3 cents a gross for inserting pin and putting onto card. Mrs. Civarro with her three-months-old baby in her arms is working with four children aged 10, 9, 7 and 5, and a younger child that does not work (2 years). They work irregularly (as Mrs. Civarro does the janitor work for the building which is in fair condition, and receives in return only the rent free of three small rooms), and their net income for this work is $2 a week. 8 members of the family sleep in one small inner room. The tenement is not licensed for homework. Baby was a premature child and very small and frail. 'It is so skinny.' Husband is a laborer. Location: New York, New York (State) / Lewis W. Hine.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1917 May 21.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
In album: Tenement homework.
Hine no. 4858.
A second copy of the caption card is filed in the card file; it includes some pencilled editorial marks.
Subjects:
Women.
Boys.
Girls.
Families.
Laborers.
Jewelry making.
Home labor.
Tenement houses.
United States--New York (State)--New York.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004004674/PP/
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