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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Boy lost arm running saw in box factory.
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Factories) series

ca. 1909
gelatin silver print
12.5 x 8.6 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 42241
77:0184:0013

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 167 / 5

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: 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) "Boy lost arm running saw in box factory 1909" "167" "5 (circled)" "Hine" (in ink) "167" "...nning saw in a box fact... (trimmed)" (applied label with ink inscription) "7"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/92, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
people, handicapped
people

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