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question that he asked that impressed me. The questions that he asked were testing to see whether you really knew or whether you were just repeating parrot style. He'd say, “Where did you see that? Would you tell me where you saw that?”

I never knew about libel in those days so I would tell him where I saw that. If I put out a picture of a photograph that Lewis Hine had taken of women doing homework or of women in a factory, he'd say, “Now, where was this taken? What was the address?”

I would tell him where we took that picture. Obviously that was done to test my accuracy - whether it was actual or fake, and whether I had personal knowledge. He would even ask me the names of the people - sometimes I could tell him, sometimes I couldn't. It was one of my regular stunts that whenever I had Lewis Hines take a photograph I always made a record in a private file of the names of the people who were involved. I did that just as a precaution and I'm not sure that George Alger didn't advise me to do that.

Lewis Hines was a great realistic photographer. I think he still lives, though he must be a very old man. He took all the pictures for the Pittsburgh Survey. He took most of those photographs and as photography they