Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series of revisiting photos from The News & Observer archives, as well as images from collections at the State Archives of N.C. and the Library of Congress. We hope they illustrate the tremendous change in both the physical and cultural landscapes of North Carolina.
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Photographer Lewis Hine documented and exposed child labor in textile mills in North Carolina in the early decades of the 1900’s.. His work helped bring about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
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Photographers from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), including Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott and Arthur Rothstein documented the New Deal in N.C. during The Great Depression providing an invaluable visual record of rural and small town life across the state. We’ll explore more of their work in future stories.
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