Kelly Sidley
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Lot 35
Lewis Wickes Hine(1874-1940)Selected Images of Newsies, Buffalo, New York 2
6 April 2023, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940)
Selected Images of Newsies, Buffalo, New York, circa 1910
2 gelatin silver prints; each with numerical inscriptions in pencil on the verso. (2)
each 4 x 4 in. (10.1 x 10.1 cm.)
2 gelatin silver prints; each with numerical inscriptions in pencil on the verso. (2)
each 4 x 4 in. (10.1 x 10.1 cm.)
Footnotes
Lewis Wickes Hine wrote this note about his image of eight newsies in Buffalo, New York: "Ready for afternoon selling, group on Seneca St. 4 P.M." In 1908 Hines had been hired by the National Child Labor Committee, established by the U.S. government in 1904 to examine the living and working conditions of American children. He is estimated to have traveled more than 50,000 miles in a ten-year period in order to document the lives of working children through his photographs and notes.