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Coal and Steel Working Conditions Gallery Images-Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center http://www.jaha.org/edu/discovery_center/work/img/conditions/

A part of the educational resources at the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center, this photo gallery of working conditions in coal mines and steel mills over the years is an excellent primary resource.

Online text of The Pittsburgh Survey found on the University of Toronto's digital library.
Social Museums
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/socialmuseum/PittsburghSurvey.huam

Created from an exhibit held at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum in 2007, this online feature, found in the classified documents section of the Social Museum at Harvard University, contains some Lewis Hine images from the Pittsburgh Survey. In particular, a selection of images focus on the poor working conditions of women who worked in the cigar factories.

Pittsburgh Portraits by Joseph Stella: The Pittsburgh Survey http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/stell30.html

This article entitled, "What Was the Pittsburgh Survey?" by Paul U. Kellogg was originally published in  Charities and the Commons, January 2, 1909. It is now located on the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh web site and provides a good background and definition of the Pittsburgh Survey, describing it as "a rapid, close range investigation of living conditions in the Pennsylvania steel district."

Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic. New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/sg/essay02.htm

In this essay by Cara Finnegan, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Finnegan discusses Paul Kellogg and his work on the social work magazines The Survey and The Survey Graphic. The discussion includes information about how his work with the Pittsburgh Survey influenced the magazine to change its name from Charities and the Commons to The Survey.

The Pittsburgh Survey by Lewis Hine
http://web.mac.com/kswillmann/Kate_Sampsell-Willmann/HIstorical_Photog...

Dr. Kate Sampsell Willmann posted slides from a magic lantern show given by Lewis Hine on her blog.

The Pittsburgh survey:  findings in six volumes: Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive

 

http://www.archive.org/details/pittsburghsurvey03kelluoft

Online text of The Pittsburgh Survey found on the University of Toronto's digital library.
Social Museums

U.S. Department of Labor-History-The Job Safety Law of 1970: Its Passage Was Perilous


http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/osha.htm

Review of the creation of OSHA that offers a historical perspective on the Progressive Era.

United States Department of Labor-History-5. Progressive Era Investigations http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/mono-regsafepart05.htm

History of Progressive Era investigations into working conditions. Specific note is given to Crystal Eastman and how she changed the perception that most workers' accidents were their fault (due to carelessness, for instance).

eHistory at OSU-Multimedia Histories-Excerpts from the Pittsburgh Survey
 
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/pittsburghsurvey/

A summary and excerpts from the Pittsburgh Survey.

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