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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Midnight at the Brooklyn Bridge
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor (Newsies)" series

1906
gelatin silver print
12.5 x 17.5 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 42246
77:0178:0022

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1-C2 / 33-A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Doherty, Jonathan L., comp. --Lewis Wickes Hine's Interpretive Photography: The Six Early Projects.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Lewis Hine", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"Lewis Hine", France, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, November 5, 1990 - January 6, 1991.//
"Lewis W. Hine: Human Documents", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, March 3 - May 31, 1992.//
"Lewis W. Hine: Early Work", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Travel, *** no exhib date given ***.//
"Lewis Hine: Passionate Journey; Photographs 1905-1939", Germany, Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, September 12 - December 29, 1996.//
"Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor", US, NY, Oswego, Tyler Art Gallery, February 27 - April 6, 1998.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Work Portraits Hastings-on- Hudson, N.Y." "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on- Hudson, New York" (typed) "Photo by Lewis W. Hine" "for Nat. Child Labor Committee (lined out)" (in ink) "Midnight at Brooklyn Bridge" "73 (circled)" (in pencil) "33-A" "1906" "33a" "1-C2" "133"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, group
occupation, newsboys

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