- Description
- 431 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller on mounts 27 x 34 or smaller.
- Summary
- Units I-IV consist primarily of images of immigrants, children and workers that Lewis Hine printed in 1939 for the Russell Sage Foundation Library. Unit V contains images made in Europe for the Red Cross, images of Hine and his family, and images that supplement or duplicate images in units I-IV.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Artists' signatures.
- Photographic prints.
- Silver gelatin prints.
- Tear sheets.
- Typescripts.
- Note
- Title from accompanying typescript.
- Includes photographs by Hine, and images of Hine by other photographers.
- Collection consists of five units of photographs (one with two parts), each separately cataloged. Accompanying the photographs are manuscript and published materials, including original mounts and captions, a typescript text describing Hine's photography of immigrants, tear sheets from pubications containing Hine's images, and later publications about Hine and his work.
- Most photographs are mounted and numbered. Prints in Units I and II are mounted on gray mounts which bear typed labels and numbering by Hine. (Dark mounts were chosen to minimize signs of handling -- c.f. Abbott, A guide to Better photography, 1941, p. 127) Units III and IV were organized and mounted by the U.S. History, Local History and Geneology Division, Unit V was organized by USLHG, and a calendar describing the entire collection was prepared in 1967. Some are signed, recto, or in the negative.
- Reproduction (note)
- consists of study prints.
- Provenance (note)
- Transferred from U.S. History Local History and Genealogy Division, 1986; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.
- Contents
- Unit I, Immigration, part 1, Ellis Island, scenes and personalities -- Unit I Immigration, part 2, Life and labor in America with emphasis upon racial contributions -- Unit II, Child labor in the U.S. -- Unit III, Women at work -- Unit IV, Men at work -- Unit V, Miscellaneous photographs.
- Call Number
- MFZ (Hine) 95-33 to 95-38
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F93
- Author
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
- Title
Series of photographic documents of social conditions, 1905-1939 [graphic] / by Lewis Wickes Hine.
- Imprint
1899-1939, most printed later.
- Reproduction
Milstein Division copy (AZ 19-236 to 19-240) consists of study prints.
- Provenance
Transferred from U.S. History Local History and Genealogy Division, 1986; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
MFZ (Hine) 95-33 to 95-38
AZ 19-236 to 19-240