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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Group of Italians at Ellis Island
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island"

ca. 1905
gelatin silver print
12.4 x 17.2 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 42247
77:0177:0032

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 268 / 67

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.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Group of Italians at Ellis Island 1905" "268" (rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on- Hudson, New York" "Photo League 30 E. 29th St. New York" (applied typed credit) "Lewis W. Hine Memorial Collection Photo League" (in ink) "67 (circled)"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/92, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, group
people, immigrants

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