They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Let's see what you can come up with...
This blog entry will be exclusively dealing with the photographer Lewis Hine. Hine tried to capture working conditions and also living conditions from the Gilded Age. He often had to outmanuever factory bosses into being let into the awful workplace to document what was going on. Many times he risked his own wellbeing to bring the truth to light about this time period in our history.
Your job is to log on to the following website http://www.shorpy.com/lewis-hine-photos and select three images to respond to.
Make sure you choose three different locations/types of work to respond to!
Answer each of these questions for each picture (a total of nine things).
1. After studying the details (location, working conditions, health of the subject (s), background, clothes of the subject(s), etc.) of the picture, what do you think some of the hazards would be for that type of job?
2. What insights can be made into the Gilded Age after viewing this image?
3. What questions does the image raise?
34 comments:
These are the photo's that i selected for this blog:
Drift Mouth:
1. I see people doing their jobs corrctly. They wear protection like gloves and helmets.
2. They are mining for coal which can be used for fueling trains and fueling furnaces in factories across the country.
3. How many of them are sick or have lung problems?
Thread Mill Boys:
1. I see the children wearing normal cloths and hats. No hand protection or eye protection.
2. Young children had to go get jobs to help suport their families during this time.
3. How old was the youngest child working, and how many kids died doing those jobs?
Two Dollars a Week:
1. This photo shows what a family can afford living on $2 a week. They lived in a small building with many family members.
2. Families didn't make much money in this age to suppoart a large house with a large family.
3. How large of a family could $2 benefit? Was the price of food and other items low or moderate?
Photo's I selected:
Young Pete:
1.) hazards could be breathing in dust and intoxicatiing fumes from the air which could damage your lungs, and cleanliness.
2.) insights that could be made would be child labor, cheap labor, and kids weren't allowed to get an education because they had to work.
3.) some questions would be did they get paid? how is society treating kids? why did they allow kids to work?
A typical group: 1910
1.) hazards could be hear, cleanliness, over-exhaustion, and dirty environment.
2.) insights would be that kids were used as cheap labor, needed a lot of people to work as messengers, and telegraph messengers were most likely boys.
3.) questions could be how many messengers did an average company need? Do they always have to wear uniforms? how many telegraphs got sent out per day?
Thread Mill boys: 1916
1.) hazards would be no hand or eye protection, injuries, heat, cleanliness, and hearing loss.
2.) insights could be that people didn't care for workers safety, paid worksers as little as possible, and a variety of young to older children worked in factories.
3.) questions couold be What did the thread mill boys do? How many different jobs were their in the thread mill? were their only male workers working their?
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Drift Mouth
1. Very little safety gear. Very hot and/or cold. Poor ventilation. Very little light. Cave-ins.
2. Mining was very hard and tiring but very important.
3. How many men died on the job compared to sickness afterwards?
Young Pete
1. Very young. Exhausted. Small kids and large machinery are a bad combination.
2. He looks like he doesn’t want to be there as did many other kids. Kids were easy to find cheap labor.
3. How young did kids work? Were there any age restrictions?
Thread Mill Boys
1. Loss of fingers, hands, limbs, life. No safety gear.
2. A lot of workers became close to one another.
3. They seem happy hear, what were they like inside the mill? How many women worked in the factories or mines? (if any)
Drift Mouth:1908
1. The hazards of mining are worrying about the roof collapsing and of inhaling too much dust and dirt.
2. this showed that the gilded age was not a time of worker safety.
3. This picutre makes me wonder how they could actually work in such conditions.
Mule Spinner:1909
1. I think that some of the hazards of being a mule spinner would be cutting yourself or breathing in all of the fly away hair and getting sick.
2. After studying the picture I see that he had no shoes on and that shows me that they didn't really care if you had protective gear on.
3. The picture makes me question why the employers wouldn't help their workers, if the workers would be safer and happier.
River Boy:1913
1. A few hazards of working as a river-boy would be fallin ginto the river, being crushed by the logs and being exposed to harsh weather.
2. The photographer showed that in the gilded age, the workers were of all ages, and they worked really hard.
3. This picture brings up the question of how young can they start working and how can they expect such a young boy to do so much grueling work.
Drift Mouth: 1908
1. One hazard for this type of job would be that if the mine collapsed it could cause many deaths to the workers/minors. Another hazard for this type of job would be if the workers became trapped in the mine for a long amount of time they could suffocate or die.
2. The insights that can be made about the Gilded Age after viewing this image are that this job requires a lot of tricky skills and is very dangerous if you are not careful.
3. Some of the questions that this image arises are “Is the mine really safe enough for workers to be in?” and “Is there good air quality inside the mine? ”.
Gamers: 1910
1. One hazard for this type of picture would be that if the boss saw that the workers were fooling around and play games they could have multiple consequences to face. Another hazard would be that this area could be very unsanitary.
2. The insights that can be made about the Gilded Age after viewing this image are that the works just simply wanted to have fun but had to be careful about doing it.
3. Some of the questions that this image arises are “Was the area that they were play games on clean?”.
Scavenger Hunt: 1912
1. One hazard that is associated with this image would be that these are only little kids going through massive amounts of rubbish and they would easily get hurt without any supervision from their parents.
2. The insights that can be made about the Gilded Age after viewing this image are that the kids are simply just trying to have fun by being adventurous.
3. Some of the questions that this image arises are “Where were the parents of these children?” and “Why wouldn’t anyone start to clean up all of the rubbish that is surrounding the children?”.
The gamers
1. You can see the frost coming out of some of the boys mouth's so its probably cold out. Many of the kids aren't really dressed for cold weather, some don't have hats of gloves.
2. The kids had to work lots of hours and almost if not everyday so they really didn't have much time to have fun. This is probably the most fun the kids had.
3. One question it rises is, do the bosses care that the kids play games on the job?
River Boy
1. Hazards could be that they could fall into the water. Having all the logs floating in the water could make it tricky to resurface the water after falling in, especially if they can't swim.
2. This was probably a popular job because many companies needed lumber to either stoke their fires with or to build new buildings for business.
3. I wonder how many workers died from getting sick and being exposed to the weather day after day.
70 Borden Street
1. One hazard could be the filth and trash strewed everywhere could spread disease.
2. This picture shows the true poverty that some family's had to put up with in the Gilded Age.
3. A question that comes to me is why didn't these people pick up their garbage? Being poverty stricken doesn't constitute laziness.
Tiny Ferris 1914:
1. First thing that I noticed was that the boy didn't even have shoes on, he didn't have good pants on and that the paper was as big as he was. The boy could easily get frostbite in the winter with the cloths he's wearing.
2. With this picture people really didn't show much mercy to the young even if their seven years old.
3. What would happen to the kid when winter would come?
Coal Creek 1910:
1. I think the worst hazard of the job was not enough people. There's only two teens pushing a huge train of coal.
2. This showed me that their wasn't a lot of maintenence around, because of the beams they look like their going to break any second.
3. How did they see in the mines because I don't see any lightbulbs down there?
Mule Spinner 1909:
1. One major hazard was if that kid would be able to hold onto that long strand of fabric, like if he slipped up he could easily lose a finger.
2. My insight would be that they didn't have machines to do the work like we do now.
3. How much fabric did he have to make in a day?
Trash Scape:
1. In this picture there are a few potential hazards. The buildings look like they are in poor conditions and there is rubish scattered throughout the picture, people can hurt themselves on it.
2. One insight I have acquired from this photo is that the work force was more concerned with the prospairity of there buisness then with what they were to do with waste and how to potentially keep people safe from it.
3. This photo had made me think of a few questions, one being why dont they try to dispose of there byproducts in a safer way. Another question i thought of was how could they leave it just scattered? couldnt they have organized it or something?
River-Boy:
1. There were multiple hazards that could occur in this photo. First of all there is the possibility of falling in the water and being crushed by the logs. Another hazard could be the apparatus he is using. Usually giving a fourteen year old a sharp pointy object like that can result in some very serious injuries, not just for the person weilding it but the other people around could get hurt by it. The weather is another hazard. You'd have to be out on the dock pulling the logs in the brutal conditions of the seasons.
2. After seeing this photo, it seems they were looking for all forms of labor for any kind of job. This is obviously not something a child should be doing.
3. One question i would have is why would they let a child do this? Another would be, how often were there casualties in this career?
Tipple Boy:
1. This photo shows a boy that works in a coal mine. One hazard is that he would be breathing in coal dust all day in the mines. Another hazard would be the soot that is all over his clothes. He could be getting it in his skin and other parts of his body which could pose some serious health issues.
2. An insight i made would be that the workers were worked extremely hard. The kid in this picture seemed exhausted.
3. One question i though of while examining this photo was, how does this job compare to other jobs of the time in hazrds? Another would be, how did the pay differ and did the amount of danger effect the workers pay, if it did at all?
Thread Mill Girls 1916:
1. Some of the hazards that are at this job are losing digits or hair while working with the machinery. Plus it was only girls there if strength is required that could be harder for girls too.
2. They had all girl mills. The girls look happy in the picture and they have hair caps to protect their hair which shows care towards the girls.
3. The girls are very young; do they get manipulated out of pay and stuck with bad lives/ hours?
Trashscape 1912:
1. The workers could get hurt because they are working with some bad stuff and they just throw everything around. This looks awful for the environment. Pollution didn’t just start now it’s been happening for a while as you can see.
2. Back then they had no worries about the environment. They just dumped trash in a dirt pit and buried it.
3. How did the trash get there? Does someone live one the dump?
In the Tunnel 1908:
1. This looks like one of the worst jobs I have ever seen. They have open flame head lamps and they are kids working in a coal mine. Terrible for their health and cave-ins.
2. Anyone could do any job for cheap labor. They used horses for a lot of work.
3. Open flame head lamps are ridiculous. Who came up with that crazy idea? Black lung?
Photos:
"Harry and Sallie: 1908"
1.) Some of the hazards of this type of a job would probably include dehydration, cave-ins, and maybe even the possibility of stampedes by the animals or accidents related to the mules. The workers were exposed to the sun with most likely no shade to cool off in. Plus, there is always the possibility of a cave-in in the mines, because the mines were unpredictable.
2.) This photo shows insights such as the use of steel in the photo that can be made back to the Gilded Age. The railway systems were functional only because of the steel rails that allowed the carts to be pulled. Steel was also used to structure the carts and the rims of the wheels on the carts.
3.) How much was the boy in the photo getting payed?
"Drift Mouth: 1908"
1.) Some of the hazards pertaining to the job in the photo might include cave-ins in the mines, getting lost, or even getting run over by the carts. The mines were dark with only little amounts of light so it was highly possible for accidents to be made.
2.) The use of railroads and railway systems is an insight that relates back o the Gilded Age. Railways started to become one of the major controversies between the Robber Barons.
3.) What was on the worker's head? Was it some form of a lighting system or what?
"A Typical Group: 1910"
1.) Dehydration, overheating, or even heat strokes were all possible hazards pertaining to the job in the photo. The workers had on long sleeved uniforms that probably didn't vent very well in the hot weather during the summers.
2.) This photo shows insights such as the use of more technological industry such as the Telegraph Company, and less skilled workers pertaining to more machines and tools that relate back to the Gilded Age. This photo also show the use of child labor too.
3.) What on earth are shirtwaists? Was that their uniforms?
Home Depot: 1910
1) Some of the hazards of dealing with a lumbaryard would include dangers with cutting down the trees to begin with. The technology isn't what it is today and most everything was done by hand. Stripping and cutting the wood was dangerous and many people lost digits.
2) From this image you can tell that wood wasn't selling so good. Because it was the age of steel, wood was not so popular anymore. All the piles of wood are full, so you can see that no one has taken anything from the piles.
3) Some questions that i have from this image are: how young did boys start working at? and how much was wood selling for during the Guilded Age. I would think it would have decreased in value due to the fact that steel was more prominant.
Instant Messanger: 1913
1) Some hazards of being a delivery boy include being aware of all the traffic in the streets.
2) From this image, you can see that even though the Gilded Age brought about great advancements in business and factories, some things still stayed the same. There was still one person to deliver the mail.
3) I wonder how long someone delivered mail by bicycle for?
Scared of School: 1908
1) Some hazards of going to school would be that the young boys couldn't work to earn money for their family. Also, it looks like the boys are shoveling coal, which can cause damages to the lungs.
2) From this image you can see that young boys, from poor families, had to work to support their families. There were plenty of Robber Barons who were making a fortune, but plenty of other people were struggling to get by.
3) One of the boys said that he was scared to be in this picture because he was afriad that he would be forced to go back to work. I wonder if that actually happened? Also, i would think that getting an education would be more helpful than earning money at this time, why didn't they view it that way?
Young Pete: 1913
1. Although this picture/description doesn't say where Pete worked, a major hazard is his age.
2. During the Gilded Age, they would let anyone work in factories just to have extra hands.
3. What was young Pete doing? What about child labor laws?
Drift Mouth: 1908
1. Some hazards could be possible cave-ins, no helmets, breathing in dust and other particles.
2. In mines, there was no safety.
3. How many workers died from cave-ins or lung issues? Did women work in this particular field?
Home Depot: 1910
1. The "home depot" is in very tight quarters so lots of people probably got hit with boards, etc.
2. Space wasn't attainable and everything was bunched and tight.
3. Was expanding for space even an option? How much did land cost?
Young Pete: 1913
1. The only background in this picture is a wall, but he looks very dirty, so he could be working with dangerous equipment and inhaling dangerous fumes.
2. People were so short on money that they had to send their kids to work in these death trap work places. Because he had to work, he was also unable to go to school.
3. How many kids were injured or died working in these industries? How young did a lot of kids actually start working?
Thread Mill Boys: 1916
1. Well, if they work in a thread mill then there are probably some machine hazards. Most of them look pretty clean.
2. Again, there are some younger kids in this picture, but most of them look at least 18.
3. They look happy in this picture. I wonder if it’s just a show for the camera.
Four Doffers: 1908
1. The look like they work in a spinning mill. It was probably pretty easy to get hurt by one of those machines.
2. They obviously didn’t have much respect for people’s well being. These four young boys work with the machinery.
3. Did most people do the same job everyday or did they work where they were needed and switch?
"Drift Mouth: 1908"
1. Cave-ins, no safety equipment, little oxygen in mines, extreme temperatures (hot or cold).
2. People didn't really know the true dangers of some jobs, which made it a lot harder to work.
3. How many people on average died a year from different hazards?
"Young Pete: 1913"
1. Since the kid is very young, he's probably more likely to get sick or injured.
2. Kids started working at very young ages, and there weren't really any exceptions for children and how much they worked.
3. Did kids have any other jobs that required more work, or just the easier jobs?
"Our Gang: 1908"
1. No adults were around, so they could easily be harmed by people, animals, weather conditions, etc.
2. The kids had to make their own games to play. They also didn't have a good, clean environment to play or hang out in. Most of the kids are dirty and don't have shoes on.
3. Do these kids have jobs too? Are they just playing on a random sidewalk, or are they near a familiar place?
The Typist:
1) Some of the hazards for the typist would be spending all day everyday hunched over the typewriter. Arthritis in the hands would also be a concern. There doesn't seem to be a lot of light in the photo which would lead to bad eye sight after a while.
2)The photo shows a great big stack of papers that had been already typed. This shows that women (and children, seeing as the s0ubject is only 15) had to work just as much as men.
3) Some questions that were raised were "how come there was only one person working on the book/publication?" and "how long would it take before her back was bad enough to not be able to work anymore?"
young pete:
1) some hazards of the job for pete would be his young age and inexperience. Being so young he could be more apt to getting hurt.
2) All ages of people were put to work. Companies didn't care about their workers, as long as they could work. Young pete also probably had to get the job to help support his family's income.
3) What was the death rate of working children? what was the youngest that a child started working? was their pay any different from older workers?
drift mouth:
1) hazards would be sanitation, air quality, lack of light, tunnels collapsing
2) Workers had to put up with all conditions regarless of safety.
3) What was were they mining? what was it mainly used for?
Young Pete 1913:
1. It doesn't say what Pete did for a job, but the more important fact is he age. Their life spans were obviously short because of how early thery started working and the kind of work done.
2. Age and gender didn't play that big of a role in the workers that were hired, as long as the work got done.
3. Where there special time limits for children? Safety equiptment?
Drift Mouth 1908:
1. Cave-ins, unclean air, lack of air/sunlight.
2. Mining was a very dangerous job.
3. Would people go and look for the workers if there was a cave-in?
Was this only a male job?
Carry-in-boy 1908:
1. You are working near a furnace, so you could get burned.
2. Workers would work for many hours all week and get paid very very little.
3. What would happen if the boy got burned, would he have any kind of health insurance? Days off?
“Scared of School: 1908”
1. Some of the hazards for this job are how the young children could inhale the dust or fumes in the mines, there could be cave-ins and their hands or other parts of their bodies could get seriously hurt without the proper equipment such as gloves or hard helmets.
2. An insight could be how young children were extremely cheap workers and they would do just about anything they were told, because at the time they had to help their parents make money to support the family. Also, mining was a very dangerous job, especially for young children.
3. Some questions that I had were: Why exactly did the young boy not want his picture taken? Was it because he was afraid of getting in trouble by the employers? Did the boys have a choice of whether they wanted to go to school or work? Or did their families need the money so bad that they had no other choice?
“70 Borden Street: 1912”
1. Some of the hazards taken from this picture are how dirty life was for some of the people in the Gilded Age and just how quickly illnesses could have spread throughout a town. Also, all of the garbage and such could attract rats or other animals, which could harm the food supply.
2. An insight could be how the families of the Gilded Age didn’t have a lot of things and what they did have was not very good. All of their possessions were probably vey old or worn out. Also, the people probably worked most of the day and therefore had no time to fix the things lying around the town.
3. Some questions that I had were: If the garbage and old objects were left, why didn’t anyone try to use the broken pieces to create a new thing? Why did the people even let their town or street get this dirty? Didn’t the people know that this much trash could create problems in the food and living conditions?
“$1.50 a Day: 1912”
1. Some of the hazards taken from this picture are how young and concerned the parents looked. Making $1.50 a day, they probably didn’t have enough food or supplies to raise the young child in the blanket. It was probably very difficult and stressful for them.
2. An insight could be how the men and women during the Gilded Age married very young. They must have started their families young, because they had to move away from their families due to the money factor and because they had to find work of their own. Also, it shows just how little a man would earn each day. The picture expresses how worried the parents are because they didn’t have enough money to support themselves.
3. Some questions that I had were: If the young couples did not have enough money to support themselves, why would they have a baby? Were there any economical benefits to marrying young?
The photos that I have selected are:
Harry and Sallie:
1. This little boy looks absolutely filthy. His clothes are disgusting and tattered and I'm kind of surprised he's wearing shoes. His face is also very dirty, more likely than not from the coal. His job, being so young, could be potentially dangerous being around coal. Everyone knows that coal is hard on your lungs. Also, who puts a twelve year old in charge of an animal four times his size? The thing could get out of control and trample him.
2.He works for a coal mining company and obviously being the driver, he transports the coal which can be used as fuel for any number of things.
3. Why would he rather be driving a cart for a coal company, risking his health, and earning next to no money at all, than be in school making something of himself?
Wild Child:
1. This boy looks much cleaner than the first boy with the coal job. His clothes don't appear to be tattered and gross (from what you can see of them). He doesn't have dirt or anything on his face and his mostly white shirt underneath looks relatively clean. Selling newspapers, I don't imagine there can be too many risks, other than standing on a street corner and getting overheated or mugged or beaten up or something like that.
2. He is selling newspapers which is obviously a way of spreading information about numerous things to people. This image, as well as the one before, definitely show you that child labor was an extremely common theme at this point in time.
3. What about him, in his father's opinion, makes him uncontrollable?
Thread Mill Boys:
1. In this photo the boys look relatively clean. However, there is no form of safety for these kids at all. No gloves or eye protection, and they're probably not even wearing boots. Working in a mill, there are a million and a half ways for these kids to be injured.
2. This image shows the overwhelming amount of poverty in this time. These kids had to get jobs just to make sure their families made it okay.
3. What is the average number of children who were injured weekly working in mills with no safety equipment? and were there any female children hired as workers or only males?
Harry and Sallie
1. First off this is not what i would ever want my child to grow up in. There clothing and just them in general are filthy.
2. He transports coal for a living. it is typically known that coal is terrible for your lungs.
3. I dont understand why certain childern weren't allowed to be in school and instead they are stuck doing these jobs that are riskings thier health. It makes me angry..
Thread Mill Boys
1. They formed unions and got closer to each other. They werent completely alone against thier employer.
2. The kinds got to wear normal clothes but they didnt have any safty equipment.
3.Of all the kids that were working there how many would be killed on a general basis?
drift mouth:
1. I think some hazards for this job would be cave-ins, because I can see that the beams supporting the sides of the cave are somewhat shifted and tilted. I also think they have the hazard of having bad air quality in the mines.
2. Mining was very important during this age, yet extremely dangerous and tiresome.
3. What age do people usually start this job? How skilled are the workers? Whats the mortality rate in this line of work?
Saturday Noon:
1. All the boys in the picture look so young, they are probably very unskilled and therefor cause a lot of accidents on the job. Some of them don't even have shoes, they're just kids, this isn't healthy for them at all.
2. Mill owners must have been so desperate for workers without paying much during this time because they used unskilled, replaceable children for workers.
3. What is really the age of the youngest boy there? did their families put them up to this to help with income?
Tiny Ferris:
1. He's such a small boy, his health cannot be very good doing a job like that, especially if he was still doing it in the winter. His life at home can't be great either if he's so young and has to be out there making money.
2. Selling newspapers can't bring in that much money, but families were poor enough to resort to that.
3. What is his home life like? How much did he sell the newspapers for? Did he get in trouble if he didn't sell enough newspapers?
These are the Photos I selected:
Young Pete: 1913
1.) I think some of the hazords for this job would be inexperience and discipline. This child is so young that he has to learn as he goes which is not a good thing to be doing in this environment.
2.) The Gilded Age was tough on its workers. The children have the same tired and empty look that the older man have. The children seemed to have been grouped with the older men too because in the picture, the boy is standing with older men.
3.) What has the boy experienced to put so much expression on his face? Is he truely grouped with the others, or is he a social outcast because of his age?
Thread Mill Girls: 1916
1.) Hine says that the girls wore caps to keep their hair out of the machinery. This could also happen with baggy clothing as well as the girl's fingers.
2.) By the look of the girls smiling and hugging, it seems that the mill was not as harsh to the girls as some other companies during the Gilded Age. Also, the girls seem to have a bit of time because this photo wasn't taken of them working like some of the other photos are.
3.) What made this job so different than the others during the Gilded Age? Where they smiling because they got a break from work or was it actually because their work wasn't a burden?
70 Borden Street: 1912
1.) I think that sense the workers don't get a lot of money to fix their environment, things are just left. This leads to polution for the area, and could cause illness, disease, and injuries.
2.) The Gilded Age took a toll on the towns and the people. The people were living under unthought of circumstances. These people were probably facing sickness everyday, and on top of that they still had to work so that they could feed themselves.
3.) Wouldn't the people see what is being done to their town and try to fix it up?
Central Glass
1. A hazard for that type of job would be getting injured by others and the hot glass. The workers are so cramped together and close, it would be easy for them to hit each other that could seriously hurt one of them.
2. It didnt matter the amount of people that would work in a spot in the Guilded Age, as long as work was getting done.
3. This photo raises the question of how many children are actually hurt doing this job? What types of injuries?
Oysterboy
1. I think that a major hazard of this job would be drowning. There's not protection from falling in at all, not even lows rails.
2. In the Guilded Age, safety obviously wasn't a first priority.
3. This image raises the question of how sanitary the work environment is?
The Spinning Room
1. With this job, you could get caught up in the machines so easily. The pathways are so small and clothes could catch on them.
2. During the Guilded Age, it seemed like things were produced in VERY large masses, even in small work spaces.
3. How many people were caught in these machines? How safe are they really? How much is produced?
Thread Mill boys: 1916
1)-relatively clean
-there is no form of safety for
-these kids at all
-no gloves or eye protection
2)-huge amounts of poverty
-had to get jobs to support family
3)-How many kids died doing this job
Home Depot: 1910
1)-very tight space to work in
-people probably were injured with boards ect.
2)-wood wasn't very popular during Gilded Age
-can see full piles of wood because steel was more popular
3)-what did they do with all the extra wood they weren't selling?
Drift Mouth: 1908
1)-possible cave-ins
-no helmets
-breathing in dust and other particles
2)-they were in a mine, thus there was no safety at all
3)-how many people a year died from cave-ins or lung related issues
Hyman the Newsie:
1. A really small kid carrying a lot of heavy newspapers, could hurt his back
2. Many people had to work
3. How old was the child?
Harry and Sallie
1. Railroad workers had to deal with animals
2.It was dirty work
3. what was working the railroads like?
Typical Group
1. Postal telegraph boys had to work in hot weather with long shirt pants
2. There were many young boys in the postal service.
3. How old were the boys.
Thread Mill Boys
1) Some Hazards in this picture are the fact that these kids are working in mills.
2) Many kids were used in the gilded age for work and labor issues. Many of these kids have had to work to support their family in these times.
3) Are these people on their lunch break because its noon time?
How young is the kid in the front?
What were the laws back when kids were working at this age?
Young Pete
1) The hazards in this job are that the kid is no where of age where he should be working. A kid this young shouldn’t be put into work like that.
2) Kids were used at a very young age in these workplaces.
3) What did the parents think of these kids and having to work in the mills?
Did this kid ever get any time off for himself?
Hyman the Newsie
1) With this job there seems to be little to no hazards involved. Except for anything that could happen being a paper boy.
2) This was an age for kids to start off their work as early as possible.
3) How much did this kid get paid for doing this?
How do these kids live the life of a middle aged man?
Thread Mill Girls: 1916
1. they appear to have long sleeves on and some are not wearing hair nets, these items could get caught on the machine and damage could be done to the girls.
2. They hired alot of people
3. What is the age range with these women?
Skeeter's Branch: 1910
1.They are all smoking next to a wooden hut.
2. people did not care about tabaco health risks.
3. Why were children allowed to smoke?
Fries Mill Boys: 1911
1. They need to get shoes on before they step on something sharp.
2.Some didnt have enough money to buy shoes.
3. Why would the boys lie about their ages?
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Hyman the Newsie: 1909
1. Some hazards for this young newsboy would be the working hours, he probably had to get up very early, and the weight of the things he would carry would probably be too much for a kid his age. Also, being in the streets isn’t safe and he’s too young.
2. You can assume from this image that the Gilded age took anyone who was willing to work for only a little bit of money and that there wasn’t a working age.
3. This image raises the questions “how much does he get paid?” and “how long was he able to work this job?”
Harry and Sallie: 1908
1. Some hazards for this worker would be the operating of heavy machinery, he could easily get hurt by the equipment or be worked too hard for his age.
2. Some insights made from this picture could be that people in that time would work any job for money and it was considered normal.
3. Some questions would be his actual age? And how long has he worked there? And is this an average job for a young boy?
Drift Mouth: 1908
1. This job looks hazardous because working a mine is hazardous anyway, but this one looks particularly run down. Workers could easily get hurt or overworked there.
2. Some insights would be that no one cared about the condition of the work environment as long as it functioned.
3. Some questions would be “how long do they spend there in one workday?” and “is there ever an adult there with them?”
lajohnsotnIn the tunnel:
1. 2 of them look to young for the job
2.bad air
3. so dirty you cant really see there faces
all earnings go to father:
1. the kid is only 11 years old
2. the father looks alot better dressed then the kid.
3. kid looks somewhat clean
li'l drug runner:
1. this kid looks like hes happy with his job
In the Tunnel:
1. The open flame from the oil head lamps could cause a fire if the tunnel was to fill with gases. I see no support beams to prevent a cave in. They are given face mask or wearing gloves.
2. Insights that could be made were that coal was being used in factories at such high amounts that they would do anything to require it.
3. How many people died from explosions and from lung problems?
Central Glass:
1. I see no one wearing any form of safety equipment and the place is badly light.
2. They would save money by not putting money into the work place for more lights or safety gear and that child labor was used because it was cheap.
3. What started child labor use in the factories?
Watch Your Fingers:
1. The roof could cave in or the showing gears could cause fingers to be lost.
2. Insights that could be made of the Gilded Age are that the machinery was dangerous with gears uncovered.
3. How does one drive such an instrument?
The typist:
1.There doesnt seem to be any job hazards it just looks like she is alone.
2.The gilded age seems to be one about just getting by and not caring whether you like your job or not.
3.Was she alone all day? What was she typing?
Young Pete: 1913
1.It is quite dirty and he is very young. He could be exposed to many different chemicals and dangerous machinery.
2.That age didnt matter you worked as early as possible to help the family.
3.How long of a day did children work? Did they make the same as an adult in the same position?
Our Gang: 1908
1.They arent working but they are on the streets and they may be homeless just trying to pass time.
2.That kids didnt have many games they just had top make there own fun.
3.What game are they playing? are they homeless?
Dirt Mouth
1. Some of the problems with this job i think would be breathing, cave-ins, and explosions from gas build up.
2. I notice about this age in time that if you had a job it was very physicly demanding and dangerous work.
3. The questions i hav for this picture is how old are some of these workers?
Coal Creek
1. You would have to watch for caveins and being run over by the rail cars. Having Black Lungs would be dangerouse.
2. Very hard work, back breaking work. All the workers look to be in there 20s or so, and almost everything is made o wood in this picture.
3. Why is it olny younger men working in the mines?
Onions, Limes, Potatoes
1. In this picture some of the things that could hurt someeone are poison from the chemicals used in the products or some of the bugs that could be living in them.
2. This was a job for young kids under i would say 16 years of age. The kids would have to sort all the fruits that come in.
3. The kids dont look very happy, why? I also want to know why only Onions, Limes, Potatoes are being sold here?
Harry and Sallie
1. Lack of safety gear. No gaurds or warnings near pinch points or around falling objects. No eye protection.
2. Working conditions were very hard. The kid in the picture started working at a very young age instead of going to school.
3. How many hours does he work every day? Does he pull the carts with his horse.
Call Me Rich
1. No reflective gear or proper footwear.
2. They are delivering newspapers around their town. This is a lot of responsibilty for young kids.
3. Were the tracks in the street set up for trolly cars? How many houses did they deliver to? How long did it take them?
Drift Mouth
1. Limited protective gear. Poor ventilation and air conditions. No protection from cave-ins.
2. They are mining for coal, which was very important during the Guilded Age because they burned a lot of coal.
3. How deep was the mine? How much coal did they bring out every day?
CENTRAL GLASS:
1. The machinary would be the main danger of this job.
2. Most of the workers are children that look younger then 14.
3. What is the boy infront doing?
BEET HOERS:
1. The hazards would be heat exaustion and some of the tools could be a danger.
2. Once again most of the workers are under age.
3. Why are the two girls working so young?
MARIE'S BASKETS:
1. A hazard could be getting mugged.
2. The streets are cobblestone and there out for long hours.
3. Do they make the baskets too?
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