Lot 203
  • 203

Lewis W. Hine 1874-1940

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Description

  • Lewis Wickes Hine
  • selected immigrant and red cross studies
a group of 5 photographs, comprising A Mother and Children at Ellis Island; ‘So--America! Czecho Slovak Grandmother at Ellis Island, 1926’; ‘No. 148--Red Cross Beneficiaries near Cleveland, Mississippi’; Red Cross Worker with a Baby; and Boy in a Straw Hat, 3 with the photographer’s ‘Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York’ studio stamp, one titled and dated by him in pencil, and one with a typed caption label on the reverse, 1910s-20s; together with a 9-page printed pamphlet, Hine’s ‘High Cost of Child Labor: A Birdseye View of This National Problem’ (National Child Labor Committee, 1914), illustrated with reproductions of Hine photographs, and with his ‘Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on Hudson, New York’ studio stamp on the front cover (6)

Provenance

From Hine to William B. Giles, the father of the current owner