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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Italian family looking for lost baggage - Ellis Island
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island"

1905
gelatin silver print
17.6 x 12.5 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3982
77:0177:0134

NON-GEH NUMBER: 66

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Rosenblum, Walter & Naomi. --America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1977. p. 30.//
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:
"A Retrospective of the Photographer Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940", US, NY, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, March 12 - May 15, 1977. (Traveled).//
"Lewis Hine", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"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-(in pencil) "Italian Family looking for lost baggage - Ellis Island" "1905" "Must credit (underlined)" "Lewis Hine Menorial Collection: Photo League" (in ink) "66 (circled)"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, group
people, immigrants

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