Pittman Handle Factory,Denison,Texas,Child Labor,Lewis Wickes Hine,1913

Title: A fifteen year old boy operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off. To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a day. This factory has a number of unprotected belts and dangerous machines. One other boy, about the age of this one, was doing all kinds of work, taking away the handles from a huge rip saw, etc., and constantly exposed to danger. Pittman Handle Factory. Location: Denison, Texas.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1913 September.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Miscellaneous.
Hine no. 3556.
Subjects:
Boys.
Child laborers.
Tool & die industry.
Woodworking.
Factories.
United States--Texas--Denison.
Photographic prints.
Bookmark /ncl2004003554/PP/
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