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paid worker, tenderness for the newcomers to our shores.

The terror and pity of life is large in these photographs; but it is a terror made more terrible by the facts with which it is documented and a pity warmed by the conscience which would not permit these pioneers re-makers of society to ignore the problems on their doorstep.

With Hime the union of form and content must have been purely instinctive. He began photography like a boy who learns to swim by being thrown into the water. He started backwards, taking flashlights before he had ever taken a snapshot.  When he got into the forbidden mills where children were illegally employed, he found two dragons to slay -- the boss who wanted to know what he was doing ("Oh, I'm just taking postcard portraits") and the technical problem.  He learned to make time exposures under the most difficult conditions, in dimly lighted tehements and dark mines, with a 5x7 view camera and the painfully slow materials of a quarter century ago.  He did not have a corps of assistants with great batteries of lights and the willing cooperation of the management -- as the stage-set pictures of vast industrial establishments are likely to be made today.  He worked under great handicaps.  But her worked. And the results are beginning to be prized today by the generation which f came after Lewis Hine.

(work should be carefully analyzed and listed in what amount)
(almost to a preliminary bibliography.  As a matter of record) 
(I have a lot of notes on this and fill out list. emcc)

September 5, 1938