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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Boy carrying homework from New York sweatshop
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor" (Tenements) series Printed from original negative 85:087:01.

1912
gelatin silver print
16.7 x 11.7 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3748
77:0180:0001

NON-GEH NUMBER: 2

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", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"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.//
"Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor", US, NY, Oswego, Tyler Art Gallery, February 27 - April 6, 1998.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive Photography Hastings- on-Hudson, New York (partially obscured)" (in pencil) "S/S" "Boy carring homework from N.Y. sweatshop 1912" "2 (circled)" "-4 3/8"- (lined out)" "3 (circled) (marked out)"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
people, at work
interior, sweatshop

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