Research Catalog

Title

[Lewis Hine collection] / Lewis W. Hines.

Author

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940

Publication

[between 1915-1929?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 3 items.; 20 x 25 cm and smaller.
• 3 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;

Summary

Depictions of the lives of African Americans living in the New York metropolitan area from the 1910s to 1920s, consisting of a view of customers in a Black-owned bank in Harlem, New York (ca.1919); a young woman working in a bookbinding factory (ca. 1910s); and a group of Black and White children reading in a library (ca. 1920s).

Subject

• African American banks > New York (State) > New York
• African American women > Employment > 1910-1919
• Children > Social life

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1910-1919.
• Group portraits – 1910-1929.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1910-1929.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• One photograph bears photographer's hand stamp on verso. All items bear handwritten notations on verso; one item bears handwritten cropping marks on verso. One item bears hole punch marks on top and bottom of print.

Terms of Use (note)

• Items may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Lewis Hine, 1874-1940, was an American sociologist and photographer whose photographic work, particularly with the National Child Labor Committee during the late 1900s to 1910s, contributed to the passage of child labor laws in the United States. A freelance photographer, he documented the social and working conditions of immigrants and workers for the American Red Cross, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Works Progress Administration, as well as the construction of the Empire State Building.

Call Number

Sc Photo Lewis Hine Collection

OCLC

1295114601

Author

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

Title

[Lewis Hine collection] / Lewis W. Hines.

Production

[between 1915-1929?]

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Terms Of Use

Items may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

Lewis Hine, 1874-1940, was an American sociologist and photographer whose photographic work, particularly with the National Child Labor Committee during the late 1900s to 1910s, contributed to the passage of child labor laws in the United States. A freelance photographer, he documented the social and working conditions of immigrants and workers for the American Red Cross, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Works Progress Administration, as well as the construction of the Empire State Building.

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Sc Photo Lewis Hine Collection