Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006305First Work in America, Italian Immigrant Carries Garments To The Tenement Home
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; stamped verso, upper center, in blue ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "1910 / First Work In America / Italian Immigrant carries / garments to Tenement home for the family-1910"; stamped and inscribed verso, center, in black ink and red pencil: "Please Credit [stamped in black ink] : Photo League / Lewis W. Hine Memorial Collection [inscribed in red pencil]"; stamped verso, lower left, sideways, in blue ink: "4944"
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 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)
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
- 1910
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 × 19.2 cm (9 9/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 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.
- 1965.347
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