Dorchester Illustration no. 2239
Today our illustration show children on improvised playground equipment made from discarded materials. The scene is the Mile Road Dump at the end of Columbia Point, October, 1909.
Photograph is by Lewis Wickes Hine, a sociologist and photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform. This photograph is part of his collection held by the Library of Congress documenting mostly child labor in America 1908-1912.
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