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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Child cotton picker
PUBLISHED TITLE: Child picking cotton
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Pickers)

ca. 1913
gelatin silver print
17.1 x 12.0 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 30193
77:0183:0035

NON-GEH NUMBER: 4561

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gutman, Judith M. --Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940: Two Perspectives.-- London: Studio Vista (also Grossman, New York), 1974. p. 30-31.//
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 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) "4561" "hine" "Child cotton picker" "Nat'l Child Lab Comm."

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
occupation, cotton picker

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