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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Gulf coast, canneries
PUBLISHED TITLE: Biloxi, Mississippi
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Canneries) series

February, 1911
gelatin silver print
11.2 x 16.3 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 10987
77:0182:0010

NON-GEH NUMBER: N.2032

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.//

Kemp, John R. --Lewis Hine: Photographs of Child Labor in the New South.-- Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. p. 63.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Lewis Hine", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"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) "N.2032" "Gulf Coast Canneries" "This little 5 yr. old, after a day's work helping her mother in the canning factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out & refused to be photographed. The mother said "Oh, she's ugly". Both she & other persons said picking shrimp was very hard on the fingers." "2032" "Hine" (in ink) "She worked from 4AM to 4PM." ...

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ. Date and alternate title from --Lewis Hine: Photographs of Child Labor in the New South--. Child identified as "Olga Schubert".

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
architecture, stoop

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