Italian Immigrant

Photography and Media

1905

Lewis Wickes Hine
American, 1874–1940

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Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine
Title: Italian Immigrant
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1905
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; verso unchecked
Dimensions: 15.6 × 11.5 cm (image/paper); 30.4 × 25.3 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Gift of David Vestal
Reference Number: 1965.354a

Oehler, Sarah Kelly. 2013. “They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 22, fig. 10.

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Portrait Photograph,” January 1-March 2, 1975.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Keepers of the Flame: Photographs by Lewis Hine and Walter Rosenblum,” January 25, 1992-April 12, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, “They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950,” March 3–June 2, 2013. (Sarah Kelly Oehler)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Max Kozloff: Critic and Photographer,” October 5, 2013–January 5, 2014. (Michal Raz-Russo)

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