Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000207Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, across left half, sideways, in black ink and graphite: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK [stamped in black ink] / Playground in a mill village / " " a Tenement alley"; inscribed verso, upper left, sideways, in graphite: "99 / 15"; verso, center, sideways, in graphite: "3 [encircled]"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Bystander: A History of Street Photography," December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995; traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, January 16-April 4, 1999. (Colin Westerbeck) 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
- 1909
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.3 × 17.2 cm (4 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 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.
- 1959.860
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