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Lewis W. Hine
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Breaker boys, Pennsylvania
PUBLISHED TITLE: Coalbreakers, Pennsylvania
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor (Mines)"

1910
gelatin silver print
19.5 x 25.1 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3776
77:0186:0024

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Rosemblum, Walter, et. al. --America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904- 1940.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1977. p. 101.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Photography In America 1850-1965", US, CT, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 13 - November 28, 1965.//
"Lewis Hine", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"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" (typed) "This is a view of the inside of a coal breaker in Pennsylvania where boys from ten years of age upward spent long days bending over the streams of broken coal from which they picked the slate. The 'Boss' stood over them, keeping them at work with voice and stick. A cloud of dust filled the air and also their lungs. They had little or no scholling." "Photo-study made in 1910"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ. Alternate title from --America & Lewis Hine--.

SUBJECTS:
people, children
interior, mine
people, at work

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