Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940). Photograph depicting two young workers, John Lewis and Morris Small, from the Springstein Mill in Chester, South Carolina, ca. 1908. Silver gelatin print. Stamped along the verso. Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer whose photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States. Height: 4 3/4 in x width: 6 3/4 in.