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

Did it give an address for the boarding house?

Unfortunately no

Yes, those steelworkers are all 13 years old, lol.

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.

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.

That is the same face on five bodies right there

Yup the look of lifelong hardship, having to fight to survive from a young age…

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

I’m Soviet Russia steel forge you

The children he photographed were under 10, more like 5 or 7. And he also took pictures of labor practices in general for adults.

Holy crap. That is Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

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/

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