Children's Bureau Centennial
LC-DIG-nclc-04573 Ambutated Leg Hine
Title: National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Born January 14, 1891. Went to work at about 9 years. Worked about two years in breaker. Went inside at about 11 years. "Tripper," tending door. 83 cents [a] day. Injured May 2, 1904. Leg crushed between cars. Amputated at Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre. "Baltimore Tunnell" - "Black Diamond" D. & H. Co. Thomas Lewellin Superintendent (inside boys); Samuel Morgan, Superintendent. In Hospital 9 weeks. Amputated twice. No charge. Received nothing from company. "Was riding between cars and we aren't supposed to ride between them." No written rules, but they tell you not to. Mule driver (who was on for first day) had taken his lamp and he tried to reach across car to get it. Slipped between bumpers. Been working in breakers since. Same place $1.10 a day. Work only about 1/2 time. Work about 6 hour day. Left 3 months ago. Been in N.Y. - no work. Trying to get work in Poolroom. Applicant at Bureau for Handicapped, 105 E. 22nd Street, N.Y. Nov. 1, 1909. Father living, (Mother dead.) Miner same place. Hurt month ago Rock fall. 2 brothers 25, 27. Home 15 Pennsylvania St. Location: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1909 November.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-04573 (color digital file from b&w original print) LC-DIG-nclc-05436 (b&w digital file from original glass negative)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LOT 7483, v. 1, no. 0954 [P&P] LC-H5- 954
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Miscellaneous.
Hine no. 0954.
General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
Subjects:
Boys.
Coal miners.
Amputees.
Wounds & injuries.
United States--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre.
Format:
Glass negatives.
Photographic prints.
Collections:
National Child Labor Committee Collection
Part of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
Bookmark This Record:
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LC-DIG-nclc-04573 Ambutated Leg Hine
Title: National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Born January 14, 1891. Went to work at about 9 years. Worked about two years in breaker. Went inside at about 11 years. "Tripper," tending door. 83 cents [a] day. Injured May 2, 1904. Leg crushed between cars. Amputated at Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre. "Baltimore Tunnell" - "Black Diamond" D. & H. Co. Thomas Lewellin Superintendent (inside boys); Samuel Morgan, Superintendent. In Hospital 9 weeks. Amputated twice. No charge. Received nothing from company. "Was riding between cars and we aren't supposed to ride between them." No written rules, but they tell you not to. Mule driver (who was on for first day) had taken his lamp and he tried to reach across car to get it. Slipped between bumpers. Been working in breakers since. Same place $1.10 a day. Work only about 1/2 time. Work about 6 hour day. Left 3 months ago. Been in N.Y. - no work. Trying to get work in Poolroom. Applicant at Bureau for Handicapped, 105 E. 22nd Street, N.Y. Nov. 1, 1909. Father living, (Mother dead.) Miner same place. Hurt month ago Rock fall. 2 brothers 25, 27. Home 15 Pennsylvania St. Location: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1909 November.
Medium: 1 photographic print.
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-nclc-04573 (color digital file from b&w original print) LC-DIG-nclc-05436 (b&w digital file from original glass negative)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LOT 7483, v. 1, no. 0954 [P&P] LC-H5- 954
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Miscellaneous.
Hine no. 0954.
General information about the Lewis Hine child labor photos is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
Subjects:
Boys.
Coal miners.
Amputees.
Wounds & injuries.
United States--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre.
Format:
Glass negatives.
Photographic prints.
Collections:
National Child Labor Committee Collection
Part of: Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
Bookmark This Record:
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ncl2004000817/PP/
View the MARC Record for this item.
Rights assessment is your responsibility.