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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Fred, a young oyster fisher, working on an oyster boat. Said he was fourteen - but looked younger.
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Canneries) series

1910
gelatin silver print
11.6 x 16.8 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 42245
77:0182:0023

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1968 / 25

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: 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) "1968" "Fred, a young oyster fisher, working on an oyster boat. Said he was fourteen - but looked younger" "1910" "N1968" "25" (rubberstamp) "In ordering use this number Hine Photo Company 27 Grant Ave. Lincoln Park Yonkers, N.Y. Set No." "N"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/92, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
occupation, oyster fisher
transportation, boat
people, at work

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