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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Ellis Island, Italian Madonna
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island" series

1905
gelatin silver print
16.9 x 11.9 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3770
77:0177:0125

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:
"150 Years of Invention of (sic) Photography", Czechoslovakia, Prague, Manes Gallery, August 1 - September 30, 1989.//
"Lewis Hine", France, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, November 5, 1990 - January 6, 1991.//
"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: recto-(in pencil) "Ellis Island Italian Madonna 1905" "(or 1905)? (lined out)"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/88, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, mother & child
people, immigrants

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