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Lewis Hine Power house mechanic working on steam pump
1920
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://web.archive.org/web/20221204115953/https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/portfolios/port_hine.html links to hi-res image) Image is not currently (as of 2007-03-22) in the ARC catalog. File 69-RH is available…
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Lewis Hine, 1920. Power house mechanic working on steam pump.
Records of the Work Progress Administration. (69-RH-4L-2)
Lewis Hine's 1920 Power house mechanic working on steam pump, one of his "work portraits", shows a working class American in an industrial setting. The carefully posed subject, a young man with wrench in hand, is hunched over, surrounded by the machinery that defines his job. But while constrained by the machinery (almost a metal womb), the man is straining against it—muscles taut, with a determined look—in an iconic representation of masculinity.
