Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage, Ellis Island

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Lewis Wickes Hine

Title

Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage, Ellis Island

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1905

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, along upper edge, in black ink and graphite: "Child-labor on the farm. [in black ink] -1930 [in graphite] / Hine [in black ink/underlined]"; stamped verso, upper center, in blue ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS - ON - HIDSON, NEW YORK"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "13 [encircled/crossed out]"

Dimensions

Image/paper: 34.2 × 26.8 cm (13 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David Vestal

Reference Number

1965.352

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