Mrs. Raphael Marengin,New York,Home Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,December 1911

Title: Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine, 8 years old, has cross eyes, and with the boy about same age works too. Some of them work until 8 or 9 p.m. at times. Boy holding baby is foolish. Husband works on railroad part of the time. 10-year-old-girl cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. 8-year-old child has cross eyes and works, as well as the boy. New York City, 1911. Manufacture of food in tenement homes is now prohibited in New York State. Location: New York, New York (State)
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1911 December.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Tenement homework.
Hine no. 2702.
A section in the original caption card is torn.
Subjects:
Families.
Laborers.
Home labor.
Food industry.
Nuts.
Sanitation.
Tenement houses.
Hours of labor.
United States--New York (State)--New York.
Photographic prints
Bookmark /ncl2004003275/PP/
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