A Ten-Year-Old Stood 12 Hours a Day — How Lewis Hine's Photo Ended Child Labor
A cotton mill in North Carolina, 1908. One photograph by Lewis Hine took 30 years to complete America's child labor law — but it got there.
Apr 30, 2026Back to Blog
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One Photograph That Changed America #1 — Mulberry Alley, 1888
Spring 1888, a narrow alley off Mulberry Street, New York. Jacob Riis took 'Bandit's Roost.' Thirteen years later, that single photograph produced America's first tenement law.
Apr 29, 2026How the Other Half Lives — Jacob Riis and the Power of the Photograph (1890)
In 1890, a newspaper reporter walked into the New York slums with a camera. The photographs shook America's conscience. The birth of photojournalism.
Apr 28, 2026