These heartbreaking photos show the child workers of Maine’s sardine canneries, 1911

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In 1908, photographer Lewis Hine was hired by the American Child Protection Council to report and document the working conditions and exploitation of children (or as they were called: underage laborers) across the United States. He traveled around the country, interviewing thousands of children in working settings and documenting the harsh reality through photographs such […]