Lewis Hine Photographs

Lewis Hine was an American photographer and sociologist who used his photographs to achieve social change. Last month, a small collection of Hine photographs was put up for auction, including this one of a mother and child at Ellis Island in 1907:

The auction included several other Hine photographs of Ellis Island, which the BBC reprints here. Hine chose to take photographs at Ellis Island in order “to give a human face to the newly arrived families, who were often feared by New Yorkers.”

-KitJ