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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Slovak Mother Ellis Island
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island"

ca. 1905
gelatin silver print
16.6 x 11.6 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3783
77:0177:0101

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 2E / 1452/14

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: 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 with ink inscription) "In ordering use this number 1452 Hine Photo Company 27 Grant Ave. Lincoln Park Yonkers, N.Y." (rubberstamp) Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings on Hudson, New York" (typed) "Slovak Mother-Ellis Island-1905" (in pencil) "2E" "203" "21 (circled)" (in red grease pencil) "3" (in ink) "63 (circled)"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/92, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, female
people, immigrant

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