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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of an immigrant, Ellis Island
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island"

ca. 1915
gelatin silver print
17.5 x 12.4 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3711
77:0177:0102

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.//
"Points of Entry: A Nation of Strangers", US, NY, New York, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, May 21 - August 16, 1998.//

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, DZ.

SUBJECT: portrait, immigrant

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