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Cotton Mill

Artist Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874 - 1940)
Date1912
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 13/16 × 6 3/4 inches (12.22 × 17.15 cm)
Sheet: 5 × 6 15/16 inches (12.7 × 17.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1468
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, top, in black ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y."
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in black pen and pencil: "Cotton mill / 1912"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "1T2" / "3079/59" On sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: "36" [circled]; On sheet verso, upper right edge, in pencil: "H662" On sheet verso, lower left, in black pen: "50" [circled]; On sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "GEH Neg 5139"; Stamp on sheet verso, bottom, in blue ink with red pencil: "IN ORDERING USE THIS NUMBER / 3079 / HINE PHOTO COMPANY / 27 GRANT AVE. LINCOLN PARK / YONKERS, N.Y."; Stamp on sheet verso, bottom, in blue ink with red pencil: "Set No. 59".
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DescriptionImage of a woman working in a cotton mill. She wears a floor-length skirt and a tattered fabric bag hangs at her side.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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