
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006518Newsies at Skeeter Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 11:00 a.m.
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "1384"; verso, center, in graphite: "Newsboys [sic]"; verso, center, upside-down, in graphite: "2 [?] Col [?] / The [?] Call [?]"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "2 [encircled]"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Portrait Photograph," January 1-March 2, 1975. Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection," March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth) NY, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars," September 22-December 31, 1989; traveled to San Franciso Museum of Modern Art, February 28-April 22, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 10-July 15, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, September 15- December 1, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 5-April 28, 1991; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 8-August 4, 1991. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Concerned Photographer," March 18–July 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Newell G. Smith, and Gregory Harris) Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, May–October, 2012. St Louis, St Louis Art Museum, Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration, Oct 3, 2021–Jan 9, 2022 Art Institute of Chicago, "A Field Guide to Photography and Media," Nov. 10, 2022–Apr. 10, 2023.
Publications
Druick, Douglas and Robert V. Sharp. 2013. "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide." Art Institute of Chicago. p. 286. Torbert, Amy, and Wolfe, M. Melissa. “Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration.” editor Elisabeth Rochau-Shalem, 204. St Louis: St Louis Art Museum, 2021 Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 141, p. 158 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
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
- May 9, 1910
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 8.9 × 11.5 cm (3 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.); Paper: 12.6 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Charles and Ruth Levy Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1974.216
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