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STOLEN CHILDHOODS
Stolen Childhoods fits into a wider historical context of visual images intended to publicize and marshal sympathy for the plight of the poverty-stricken. Often, these images depict children forced to work under dangerous and inappropriate conditions. Viewers of these images see children forced to sacrifice their health for starvation wages.		RESOURCES Stolen Childhoods Home Film & Lecture Photography by Lewis Hine Farm Security Administration Photos Three FSA Photos Additional Resources
		Boy in India in light bulb factory
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California	The work of several Farm Security Administration photographers during The Great Depression of the 1930s revealed the plight of many families forced to work in desperate circumstances.	Girl in Kenya picking coffee

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