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Lewis Hine, a teacher and photographer, wanted to reveal how cruel the child labor system was. So he quit his teaching job and started to work for the National Child Labor Committee as an investigative photographer. He gained access to factories by pretending to have different jobs like insurance agent or fire inspector. Once inside, he would photograph the children working there. He would also ask their names and ages and record information about their living and working conditions. From 1908 to 1912, he secretly gathered information and took photographs to expose factory owners who were taking advantage of helpless children. Hine's photographs captured young children doing all sorts of jobs. These included picking vegetables, weaving baskets, and even handling dangerous equipment. What is more, the children's faces showed the tragic impact of hard labor. When people saw the children's joyless expressions, they could not help but feel heartbroken.

In June 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire. The likely cause was a burning flare falling from a train, which set fire to oil-soaked waste beneath a bridge. At that time, few people in Cleveland cared. This was because fires had been recorded on the Cuyahoga more than ten times before, and some of them had been much worse. However, it wasn't long before the 1969 fire became famous. This was thanks to an article published in Time magazine that year. The article featured a shocking photograph of flames and smoke rising from the river. But this was not a photograph of the 1969 fire, which was put out so quickly that nobody took a picture of it. In fact, it was a picture of a much worse fire that had occurred on the river several years earlier. Still, the image had a great impact on people.