Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006262Breaker Boys in Pennsylvania Coal Mine
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, in negative, lower right, backwards, below image, in white: "136 [?]"; inscribed and stamped verso, across left half, in graphite and blue ink: "IC4 [inscribed in graphite] / Lewis W. Hine / Interpretive Photography / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON / NEW YORK [stamped in blue ink] / Breaker boys in Pa / coal mine 1920-"
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lewis Wickes Hine / American, 1874–1940
- Date
- 1920
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 11.8 × 16.9 cm (4 11/16 × 6 11/16 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
- Gift of David Vestal
- Accession no.
- 1965.290
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