Young Girl Mill Worker

Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940

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May 1909

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in. (12.5 × 17.6 cm)

Overall: 4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in. (12.6 × 17.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PH.998.10.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, upper left to right: 749/HINE/P1477

Course History

ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014

SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

English 52.19, Poverty in American Literature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023

English 52.19, Poverty in American LIterature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023

Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Mining Photography: Selecting Work from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Studio Art 30 & 75, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 6-June 4, 2000.

Signs of Modern Life: Photographs from the Collections of Jane and Raphael Bernstein and Dartmouth College, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 25, 1998.

Publication History

Lewis Hine: Child Labor, 1908-1916 and other photographs, Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts, January 1998, no. 1.

Provenance

Lee Gallery; sold to present collection, 1998.

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