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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Little Spinner in Mill, Augusta, GA
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor (Textiles)"

1909
gelatin silver print
11.8 x 16.8 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 2505
77:0181:0005

NON-GEH NUMBER: 548

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Doherty, Jonathan L., comp. --Lewis Wickes Hine's Interpretive Photography: The Six Early Projects.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"On the Art of Fixing a Shadow", US, DC, Washington, National Gallery of Art, May 7 - July 30, 1989. (Traveled).//
"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-(in pencil) "Little Spinner in mill, Augusta, Ga. Overseer said she was regularly employed." "548" "Hine - 1909" "Cotton 1909" (illeg. notation)

NOTES: Catalogued 10/88, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
interior, spinning mill
portrait, girl

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