Lewis Hine: When Innovation Was King ISGM Home thinkers and ordinary readers for

thinkers and ordinary readers for almost two thousand years

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This edition also includes ‘A Fragment’ by Lord Byron and ‘The Vampyre: A Tale’ by John Polidori

science-teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project

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Lewis Hine: When Innovation Was King ISGM Home thinkers and ordinary readers forThe WPA National Research Project Photographs, 1936 37 In 1936, science teacher turned photographer Lewis Hine was commissioned by the National Research Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, to produce a visual document of the industries that the US government hoped would provide the jobs that would lift the country out of the Great Depression. Hine, already well established as a chronicler of social conditions of his day, produced