
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006272West Virginia Coal Mine
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, on image, right center, in graphite: "1917"; inscribed verso, right center, sideways, in graphite: "N 1917 / (Photo / 1911) / W. Va coal-Hine"; verso, lower right, upside-down, in graphite: "1917"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart" October 7, 2006-January 14, 2007. (David Travis)
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
- 1917
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 11.9 × 16.8 cm (4 11/16 × 6 5/8 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.
- 1965.304
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