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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Cotton Picker
PUBLISHED TITLE: Bells, Texas
SERIES TITLE: Child Labor" (Pickers) series

September, 1913
gelatin silver print
11.9 x 16.5 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 30176
77:0183:0031

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 3548 / 3

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Doherty, Jonathan L., comp. --Lewis Wickes Hine's Interpretive Photography: The Six Early Projects.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.//

Kemp, John R. --Lewis Hine Photographs of Child Labor in the New South.-- Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. p. 92.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"150 Years of Invention of (sic) Photography", Czechoslovakia, Prague, Manes Gallery, August 1 - September 30, 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.//
"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) "Cotton Picker" "3548" recto-(in image) "3"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/88, DZ. Alternate title from --Photographs of Child Labor in the New South--.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
people, picking cotton

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