• Lewis Wickes Hine (photographer)

Exterior view of Virginia K. Johnson home, house of refuge for unmarried mothers, Dallas, Texas, United States

October 1913

Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee.
Caption from NCLC caption card: "The Virginia K. Johnson home. (A House of Refuge for unmarried Mothers under twenty-one years old.) A large proportion of the girls here came from the farms, their lives stunted by the monotonous work of cotton picking, many of them beginning at five and six years old. Surely this must be counted one of the by-products of such deadening work".

Gelatin silver print

COMP.: 11.7 x 16.8 cm mat: 20.3 x 25.4 cm SHEET: 12.7 x 17.7 cm

PH1980:1139

numbered - N. / 3648 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, upper right); 3648 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on print, verso, lower right)

Dallas; Texas; United States;