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Lewis W. Hine

'Derrick-man who directs and controls the derrick with its great loads, Empire State Building'

Lot Closed

October 5, 03:33 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lewis W. Hine

1874 - 1940

'Derrick-man who directs and controls the derrick with its great loads, Empire State Building'


gelatin silver print, titled in pencil and the photographer's 'Interpretive Photography / Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.' stamp on the reverse, framed, circa 1930

image: 9½ by 7 ½ in. (24.1 by 19.1 cm.)

frame: 16 ¾ by 14 ¾ in. (42.5 by 37.5 cm.)

Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

By descent through family to the present owners

Freddy Langer, Lewis W. Hine: The Empire State Building (Munich, 1998) p. 44