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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Group of Breaker Boys
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Mines)

1911
gelatin silver print
11.9 x 17.3 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 7868
77:0186:0007

NON-GEH NUMBER: 1940

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Doherty, Jonathan L., comp. --Lewis Wickes Hine's Interpretive Photography: The Six Early Projects.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.//
Dupry, Alan. --Lewis Hine.-- Granada, Spain: Diputacion Provincial de Granada, 1991. p. 56.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"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-(in pencil) "N 1940" "Group of Coal Breaker Boys 1911" "(Photo Hine - 1911)" "1940"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, DZ.

SUBJECT: portrait, children

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