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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Climbing into America, Ellis Island
PUBLISHED TITLE: Climbing into the land of promise, Ellis Island
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island"

1905
gelatin silver print
16.6 x 11.9 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 42248
77:0177:0039

NON-GEH NUMBER: 660

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rosenblum, Walter & Naomi. --America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1977. p. 29.//
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.//

Gutman, Judith Mara. --Lewis W. Hine: Two Perspectives.-- New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974. p. 9.//

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.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings- on-Hudson, New York" (in pencil) "Climbing into America" "Ellis Is - 1905" "660"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, DZ. Dated as "1908" in --America & Lewis Hine--.

SUBJECT: portrait, immigrants

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