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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Slavic Mother & Child, Ellis Island
SERIES TITLE: "Ellis Island" series

1905
gelatin silver print
17.7 x 12.6 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3768
77:0177:0138

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 664 / H-19288

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 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 negative) "H-19288 (reversed)" verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hasstings-on-Hidson, New York" (in pencil) "Slavic Mother & Child Ellis Island." "(1905 or 1910 (1910 lined out))?" "664"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/88, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, group
people, immigrants

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