Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006948Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage, Ellis Island
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, along upper edge, in black ink and graphite: "Child-labor on the farm. [in black ink] -1930 [in graphite] / Hine [in black ink/underlined]"; stamped verso, upper center, in blue ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS - ON - HIDSON, NEW YORK"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "13 [encircled/crossed out]"
Exhibition history
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.
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/paper: 34.2 × 26.8 cm (13 1/2 × 10 9/16 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.
- 1965.352
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