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Millinery Workers

Artist Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874 - 1940)
Date1915
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (16.51 × 11.43 cm)
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 5/8 inches (16.83 × 11.75 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1459
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK"; Artist's stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK" [scratched out].
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Millinery workers, 1915"
MarkingsStamp on sheet verso, bottom, in purple and black ink: "IN ORDERING USE THIS NUMBER / 3442 HINE PHOTO COMPANY / 27 GRANT AVE. LINCOLN PARK / YONKERS, N.Y."; Stamp on sheet verso, bottom, in black and blue ink: "Set No. 536"; On sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "3442 / 1H"; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "H662"; On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "536" / "GEH Neg 5129".
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DescriptionImage of women assembling straw hats. The woman seated in the foreground is wearing a dark pin-striped dress with a lace collar.Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1973;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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