Adolescent Spinner, Carolina Cotton Mill
Artist
Lewis W. Hine
(American, 1874 - 1940)
Date1909
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 15/16 × 6 13/16 inches (12.54 × 17.3 cm)
Sheet: 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.78 cm)
Sheet: 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1464
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, top, upside down, in black ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y."
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Adolescent Spinner / Carolina Cotton Mill / 1909"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "1C2";
On sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: "39" [circled];
On sheet verso, lower left, in black pen: "46" [circled and scratched out] "47" [circled];
On sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "15".
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DescriptionImage of adolescent girl working at a cotton mill. She stands in profile wearing a tattered dress and apron. Her hair is braided and pulled back at the nape of her neck.Gallery LabelTrained as both an educator and a photographer, Lewis Hine used the camera as a tool for social reform. In 1908, he began working for the National Child Labor Committee. As he photographed, Hine often collected data about the child’s age, working hours, and job description. Hine published and exhibited this information with his images in an effort to call attention to the dangerous conditions under which children worked. Hine took hundreds of photographs in textile mills, canneries, mines and other industrial sites throughout the Northeast and the Deep South.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1973;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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