Objective Assessment


As you view each photograph take note about what you see. (note people, background, objects) Pretend you were describing the image to someone who could not see it. Try to avoid making judgments.

Where are these children? List any clues relating to their surroundings.
Describe any tools or objects you see.
Describe their clothing. What do their clothes reveal about their work?

Subjective Assessment


What questions do you have about each of these photographs?
Based on your observations, list three things you might infer about the lives of these children. (Be sure to consider Hine's notes about the photographs when considering this.


Photograph A:
A young girl (like 10 ish) at a whitnel cotton mill
-clothing is ragged and dirty
-earns 48 cents a day
-has workd there for a year
Photograph B
Five girls (about 13) standing in work clothing
-dirty clothing
-looked tired (possessed)
Photograph C
A very young girl (about 6 or 7) standing in a cotton mill/weaving factory
-tattered clothes
-Hine's notes: The overseer said apologetically, "She just happened in." She was working steadily. The mills seem full of youngsters who "just happened in" or "are helping sister." Newberry, S.C
Photograph D
Young newsie (about 10/11) selling papers on a Saturday afternoon. St. Louis, Mo
-weather seems cold (judging by peoples clothes)
-does not look like he is enjoying himself
-looks distraut

Photograph E
a large group of boys siting in front of troughs filled with what apears to be coal (possibly sorting through it)
-the air is very smoky
-boys are very dirty and sooty

Photograph F
A bunch of boys (of various ages) working in a Glass Works
-pipes?
-one boy's shirt is very torn
-late at night to be working (9pm)

Photograph G
Many people of all ages shucking orsters that are whealed in on a bunch of carts
-little baby girl with her mother (not working)

Photograph H
Children on the night shift going to work at 6 p.m. on a cold, dark December day. They do not come out again until 6 a.m. When they went home the next morning they were all drenched by a heavy, cold rain and had few or no wraps. Two of the smaller girls with three other sisters work on the night shift and support a big, lazy father who complains he is not well enough to work. He loafs around the country store. The oldest three of these sisters have been in the mill for 7 years, and the two youngest, two years. The latter earns 84 cents a night. Whitnel, N.C.
- what he said