Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000206Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, across left half, sideways, in blue ink and graphite: "[illegible/cut off/inscribed in graphite] / LEWIS W. HINES / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK [stamped in blue] / Spinner in cotton mill / N. Carolina 1908 [inscribed in graphite]"; inscribed verso, upper right, sideways, in graphite: "7 / 7"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection," March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth) Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart," October 7, 2006–January 14, 2007. (David Travis) Art Institute of Chicago, "The Concerned Photographer," March 18–June 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Gregory Harris, and Newell G. Smith) Art Institute of Chicago, "The Photographer's Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959-1970," May 24-October 29, 2017. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lewis Wickes Hine / American, 1874–1940
- Date
- 1908
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 11.6 × 15.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Acquired through exchange with George Eastman House
- Accession no.
- 1959.859
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