Lewis Wickes Hine, [Unskilled workers cutting rubber and feeding, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts], 1936-37 (775.1975)
Lewis Wickes Hine, [Worker stripping rubber bodies off core-bars, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts], December 1936 (777.1975)
Lewis Wickes Hine, [Worker pressing rubber bodies, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts], December 1936 (778.1975)
Lewis Wickes Hine, [Worker setting eyes in sleeping dolls, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts], December 1936 (782.1975)
Lewis Wickes Hine, [Worker spraying face, hands, and arms of dolls, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts], December 1936 (783.1975)
Lewis Wickes Hine, [Worker dressing and packing dolls, Paragon Rubber Company and American Character Doll, Easthampton, Massachusetts], 1936-37 (779.1975)
Among the least known but most prescient photographs taken by social documentary photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940) were those he made as chief photographer for the National Research Project (NRP), a division of the federal government’s Works Project Administration (WPA) founded in late 1935. The goal of the NRP was to investigate recent changes in industrial technologies and to assess their effects on future employment. In over 700 photographs, taken in industrial towns throughout the Northeast in 1936 and 1937, Hine revealed not only working conditions in aging industrial factories, but also in new industries and productive workplaces. The NRP published hundreds of reports illustrated with Hine’s photographs on a broad variety of agricultural, manufacturing, and mining activities. His works captured the look of labor and industry in transition, while the entire NRP story provides provocative parallels to today’s economic challenges. The Future of America: Lewis Hine’s New Deal Photographs
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