Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006307Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage, Ellis Island
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "6 [encircled]"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Portrait Photograph," January 1-March 2, 1975. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Photographers from the Permanent Collection," February 14-June 10, 1984. Greensboro, North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, "Priceless Children: American Photographs 1890-1925 -Child Labour and the Pictorial Ideal," October 28-December 19, 2001; traveled to University Art Museu, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 8-April 7, 2002; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, May 7-July 13, 2002. Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, November 21, 2015-May 8, 2016.
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
- 1905
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.4 × 12.5 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.); Paper: 19.6 × 17 cm (7 3/4 × 6 3/4 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.
- 1965.349
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