Technological Change

Technological Change

Print

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Technological Change

ca. 1937
photomechanical reproduction
25.4 x 14.8 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0730.0027B
Inscriptions mount verso-(in pencil) "Skill" (signed) "Hine"
mount recto-(applied printed tearsheet) "Selected Photo Studies by
Lewis W. Hine" "Chief photographer National Research Project Works
Progress Administration" "Technological Change" "USA Work Program
WPA" "Works Progress Administration National Research Project"
"This craftsman, who is preparing designs for high-quality furniture,
has worked..." "Below: This machine in about 5 hours turns out 18
copies of the chair leg on which the hand carver spent 15 hours. ..."

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