The People of Fall River - 1916

While browseing one of my favorite sites I came across these images taken by Lewis Hines. Hines under took the hard position and tried to document child labor in america at the turn of the century. He has photographed many children working in mills and caves who where earning money and making a living at an amazingly young age.

We have heard of Lizzie and Fallriver but I, like many have never traveled there. I found these shots interesting to see some of the faces and people who grew up there. Surely the families of these workers knew of the crime and I suspect some of thier family members could have sat in jury for the trial. The photos were taken in 1916 which was some years after the "accident", ok ....murder. The photo above is one of the pictures I found showing the guys and the link for a very large image can be found here1916 photo 1. The second photo is of the girls and can be reached here 1916 photo 2. You can view and purchase images or give feed back here. The link is to Shorpy.com and they post images from mid 1800's to mid 1900's with a heavy dose of early 1900's america in all aspects of life.

Be warned if you are a photo nut like me you will spend days upon days at the Shorpy site. The photos linked may not have any relivance to the case or Lizzie itself, but I did find it interesting.

I did not add links to Hine's names here because there is such a wide base of information and images. I would recommend googling "Lewis Wickes Hine" to just to view a small portion of what he was about and what he helped accomplishd.