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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Riveting at the top of mooring-mast on Empire State Building
PUBLISHED TITLE: A glimpse of a workman driving one of the last rivets...
SERIES TITLE: "Empire State" (Riveters)

1930
gelatin silver print
11.9 x 16.9 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 29681
77:0158:0006

NON-GEH NUMBER: 736

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rosenblum, Walter & Naomi. --America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1977. p. 113.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//

Hine, Lewis W. --Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. unp.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"New York: 1920s-1930s", Japan, Tokyo, Mainichi Newspapers, April - October, 1988.//
"Lewis W. Hine: Human Documents", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, March 3 - May 31, 1992.//
"Lewis W. Hine: Americans at 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.//
"Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in ink) "Riveting at the top of mooring-mast on Empire State Building" "Photo-study by Hine" (rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings-on-Hudson, New York" (in pencil) "736" "74+" "-3 1/2-" "pos-stat" "D (circled)"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. Alternate title from --Men at Work--.

SUBJECTS:
people, at work
cityscape, aerial perspective
occupation, riveters

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