Russian Family, Ellis Island

Photography and Media

1905

Lewis Wickes Hine
American, 1874–1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine
Title: Russian Family, Ellis Island
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1905
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; stamped verso, upper center, in blue ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK"; [verso photo]
Dimensions: Image/paper: 17.7 × 12.6 cm (7 × 5 in.)
Credit Line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1998.217
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Greensboro, North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, “Priceless Children: American Photographs 1890-1925 -Child Labour and the Pictorial Ideal,” October 28-December 19, 2001; traveled to University Art Museu, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 8-April 7, 2002; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, May 7-July 13, 2002.
Art Institute of Chicago, “New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography,” February 8–October 19, 2003. (Elizabeth Siegel)

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