by Litzy Moreno | Nov 21, 2025
James Montgomery Flagg’s poster is a small representation of how women were viewed prior to World War I. While providing a glance into America’s participation in the war. The United States had attempted to stay neutral and isolate themselves from the war that began in...
by Estrella Hernandez | Nov 21, 2025
Lewis Hine’s 1917 photograph of the Civarro family powerfully captures the everyday struggles of working-class family life in early twentieth-century urban America. Taken inside a cramped New York tenement apartment, the photograph shows Mrs. Civarro holding her...
by Deloris Hynes | Nov 30, 2021
This historical source is a photograph of a 14-year-old newsie taken by sociologist and muckraker photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in February 1910. Hine produced over a hundred photographs documenting child labor in the United States which was instrumental to the...
by Ashlin Miller | Mar 17, 2020
The source presented here, at first glance, is a simple photograph of a child from the 1900s. This photograph was taken by photographer Lewis Wickes Hine in 1913. Hine was a photographer during the Progressive Era who was known for documenting the lives of the...