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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Breaker Boys In Coal Chute, South Pittston, Pennsylvania
    Lewis Wickes Hine. Breaker Boys In Coal Chute, South Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1911. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00006288

    Breaker Boys In Coal Chute, South Pittston, Pennsylvania

    by Lewis Wickes Hine

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, right center, sideways, in graphite: "3 [encircled]"

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection," March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth) Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, "A History of Photography from Chicago Collection," April 24–June 6, 1982. Art Institute of Chicago, "Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection," July 24-October 17, 1993.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Lewis Wickes Hine / American, 1874–1940
    Date
    1911
    Medium
    Gelatin silver print
    Dimensions
    Image: 12.1 × 17.3 cm (4 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 12.6 × 17.6 cm (5 × 6 15/16 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.
    1965.325

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