Submitted by Yinzerman1992 t3_ygjw7o in pittsburgh
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Elouiseotter t1_iu95p9d wrote
Did it give an address for the boarding house?
SWPenn t1_iuaczln wrote
The boarding house was likely in "the ward," which was the neighborhood below the tracks. Most immigrants, mostly single men, lived there. The ward was torn down and 8,000 people displaced beginning in 1941 when US Steel expanded the mill to meet wartime production goals. If you go to a movie or shop at the Waterfront, you're in the ward.
Yinzerman1992 OP t1_iu98onn wrote
Unfortunately no
Willow-girl t1_iu9ri6o wrote
Yes, those steelworkers are all 13 years old, lol.
RK_Thorne t1_iuc5ncj wrote
The children he photographed were under 10, more like 5 or 7. And he also took pictures of labor practices in general for adults.
Willow-girl t1_iucxc6l wrote
Are you familiar with the Lewis Hine Project? A researcher tried to track down the children Hines had photographed to learn about their later lives. https://morningsonmaplestreet.com/
SWPenn t1_iuacg88 wrote
I believe this photo is part of The Pittsburgh Survey from 1907, "Homestead: The Households of a Milltown" by Margaret Byington. The laborers worked 12-hour days for two weeks, then on Sunday at the end of the two weeks worked 24 hours to switch them to the next shift, which they did for the next two weeks, and over and over. No unions then. Well, there was a union, but it was crushed in 1892 and wouldn't form again until the late 1930s.
WinterWontStopComing t1_iualc57 wrote
That is the same face on five bodies right there
bluepisces1980 t1_iuanl4l wrote
Yup the look of lifelong hardship, having to fight to survive from a young age…
WinterWontStopComing t1_iuao0b8 wrote
No doubt. Like consuming milk preserved with embalming chemicals, drinking soft drinks filled with your choice of cocaine or lithium if they could afford it, being a pack a day smoker by ten and working in the mines by your tweenage years
arduousardor t1_iuc60n5 wrote
Holy crap. That is Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.
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Mbhawks10 t1_iubrsn5 wrote
I’m Soviet Russia steel forge you
Yinzerman1992 OP t1_iu8ur0y wrote
If Lewis hine sounds familiar he was the sociologist who took pictures detailing labor conditions in the early 20th century, and was instrumental in changing child labor laws in america.
Photograph provided by Carnegie archives