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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Driver in W. Va. mine
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Mines)

1909
gelatin silver print
16.9 x 11.8 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 6173
77:0186:0020

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 1C4 / 734

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 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 ordering use this number Hine Photo Company 27 Grant Ave. Lincoln Park Yonkers, N.Y." (in pencil) "1C4" "N136" "1909" "Driver in W. Va. mine" "Photo by Hine for Nat. Child Labor Com." "734" "136"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
occupation, mule driver

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