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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: One of many young boys on night shift in a W. Va. glass factory
PUBLISHED TITLE: Young night worker in glass factory
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Factories)

1908
gelatin silver print
16.9 x 11.9 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 37683
77:0184:0010

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1C2 / 2260

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rosenblum, Walter & Naomi. --America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1977. p. 55.//
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, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. p. 87.//
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 Hine", France, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, November 5, 1990 - January 6, 1991.//
"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-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings- on-Hudson, New York" (in ink, with pencil additions) "One of many young boys on night shift in a W. Va. glass factory in 1910(lined out) 1908." "Photo - Hine" (in pencil) "1c2" "2260" (typed caption) "Young night-worker in glass-factory Photo-study made by Lewis W. Hine in West Va., 1908 At that time many young boys were employed in glassworks. In recent years they have been replaced ..."

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ. Dated "June 1911" and location listed as "Alexandria, Virginia" in --Lewis Hine: Photographs of Child Labor in the New South--. Dated "1909" in --America & Lewis Hine--.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
interior, factory

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