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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Some of the so-called "helpers" in a Georgia cotton mill.
PUBLISHED TITLE: Bibb Mill # 1, Macon, Georgia, 1909
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Textiles)

ca. 1909
gelatin silver print
11.8 x 15.1 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3697
77:0181:0010

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 711 / 2

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Doherty, Jonathan L., comp. --Lewis Wickes Hine's Interpretive Photography: The Six Early Projects.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.//
Brower, Cathryn F. --Spinner People and Culture in Southeastern Massachusetts. "Lewis Hine's Mill Children".-- 1982. p. 36.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"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-(in pencil) "2 (circled)" "711" (rubberstamp) (mostly trimmed) "...Hastings-on-Hudson, New York"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/92, MMD. Published title from Brower.

SUBJECTS:
people, children
people, at work
interior, cotton mill

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