Lewis W. Hine 1874-1940

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Description

Lewis Wickes Hine
young girl in a carolina cotton mill

the photographer's 'Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York,' studio stamp, numbered 'N 362,' '7,' and '#110' in unidentified hands in pencil, and with a photo agency label on the reverse, matted, 1908, probably printed in the 1920s or 1930s

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, 1975

Literature

Other croppings of this image:

Goldberg, Lewis Hine: Children at Work (Munich, London and New York, 1999), p. 58

Goldberg, The Power of Photography: How Photography Changed Our Lives (New York, 1991), p. 175

Goldberg and Silberman, American Photography: A Century of Images (San Francisco, 1999), p. 42

Freedman, Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor (New York, 1994), rear dust jacket and p. 34

Karl Steinorth, Editor, Lewis Hine: Passionate Journey, Photographs 1905-1937 (Zurich, 1996, in conjunction with the George Eastman House exhibition at Photokina in Cologne, Germany), p. 123

Haskell, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950 (in conjunction with the exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York), p. 85, fig. 158

Catalogue Note

The subject of this photograph is Sadie Pfeifer, who was described by Hine in his original caption for the picture as "48 inches high. Has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Lancaster, S. C., Nov. 30, 1908."