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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Gulf coast, Shrimp pickers
PUBLISHED TITLE: Biloxi, Mississippi, February, 1911
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor (Canneries)"

1912
gelatin silver print
11.7 x 16.9 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 6425
77:0182:0016

NON-GEH NUMBER: 2021

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Kemp, John R. --Lewis Hine: Photographs of Child Labor in the New South.-- Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. p. 64.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Lewis Hine", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"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-(rubberstamp) "In ordering use this number N. 2021 Hine Photo Company 27 Grant Ave. Lincoln Park Yonkers, N.Y." (in pencil) "2021" "Gulf Coast" "Shrimp pickers." "N" "Olga at the end standing on the box is 5 yrs. old Later in the day at home the child stubbornly refused to have her photo taken. Hine" "1912" "2021" "N2021 (lined out)"

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

SUBJECTS:
people, at work
interior, factory

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