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Hine, Lewis W.
American (1874-1940)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Mississippi cannery, Shrimp picker - 5 years old
SERIES TITLE: "Child Labor (Canneries)"

1911
gelatin silver print
11.3 x 16.6 cm.
Gift of the Photo League, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine
GEH NEG: 3807
77:0182:0001

NON-GEH NUMBER: 1984

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Doherty, Jonathan L., comp. --Lewis Wickes Hine's Interpretive Photography: The Six Early Projects.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.//

Curtis, Verna Posever & Stanley Mallach. --Photography and Reform: Lewis Hine & the National Child Labor Committee.-- Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1984. p. 66.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Lewis Hine", US, NY, Oneonta, Hartwick College - The Museums, January 15 - February 24, 1988.//
"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: recto-(in pencil, on image) "1984" verso-(in ink) "Mississippi" "1984" (in pencil) "cannery" "Shrimp picker -5 yrs. old. Worked last year." "Hine" "1984"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/87, DZ. Date and geographic place represented from --Photography & Reform--.

SUBJECT: portrait, child

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