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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Girl worker in Carolina Cotton Mill
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Textiles)

1908
gelatin silver print
12.5 x 17.5 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 42244
77:0181:0015

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1C2 / 362

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:
"L'Invention d'un Regard cent Cinquantenaire de la Photographie XIXe Siecle", France, Paris, Musee d'Orsay, October 2 - December 3, 1989.//
"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-(in pencil) "1C2" "362" "-1908-" "Return to Hine-please" (applied typed label) "National Child Labor Committee. No. 362" "Sadie Pfeifer (obscured)" "48 inches high Has worked half a year One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Photo by Lewis W. Hine. Nov. 30, 08." (in ink) "(Do Not Use Names)" (typed label) "Child working in cotton mill. Photographed in 1908 by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee"

NOTES: Catalogued 5/89, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
people, at work
interior, spinning mill

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