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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Knitter in Tennessee knitting mill
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Textiles) series

1912
gelatin silver print
11.8 x 17.0 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 30165
77:0181:0025

NON-GEH NUMBER: 1C2

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 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" "Knitter in Tennessee knitting mill 1912" (rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on- Hudson, New York"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/92, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
people, at work
occupation, textile workers

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