Breaker Boys in Pennsylvania Coal Mine

Photography and Media

1920

Lewis Wickes Hine
American, 1874–1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine
Title: Breaker Boys in Pennsylvania Coal Mine
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 1920
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, in negative, lower right, backwards, below image, in white: "136 [?]"; inscribed and stamped verso, across left half, in graphite and blue ink: "IC4 [inscribed in graphite] / Lewis W. Hine / Interpretive Photography / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON / NEW YORK [stamped in blue ink] / Breaker boys in Pa / coal mine 1920-"
Dimensions: Image: 11.8 × 16.9 cm (4 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of David Vestal
Reference Number: 1965.290
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