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LEWIS WICKES HINE (1874–1940)
Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina, 1908
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed by 1920s
signed, dated and annotated 'One of many children at work/ in Carolina cotton mills - 1908/ a regular worker - 48 inches high' by the artist in pencil (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (11.7 x 16.2 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by a private collector;
Christie's, New York, April 6, 2018, lot 75;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Judith Mara Gutman, Lewis W. Hine and the American social conscience, Walker and Company, New York, 1967, front jacket.
Vicki Goldberg, Lewis W. Hine; Children at Work, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1999, p. 58.
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