{"value"=>"<p>Jessie Tarbox Beals and her husband and business partner Alfred Tennyson Beals were the principal photographers hired by the People's Institute to document its programs and activities. This series also includes several photographs taken by Lewis Hine. Most of the photographs were taken on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A large portion of the photographs are devoted to children engaged in various activities.</p> <p>The photographs of the Health School at P.S. 40 (1918) document the Institute's efforts to improve the health of European immigrant children living on the Lower East Side. The images include children being weighed and measured, scenes of mostly boys eating food, immigrant mothers with their children, and young girls dancing and playing on the roof of P.S. 40.</p>"}