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Hand-Blown Bottles

Artist Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874 - 1940)
Date1937
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 10 9/16 inches (34.29 × 26.83 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 inches (35.4 × 27.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1482
SignedBlind stamp on image recto, lower left: "LEWIS W. HINE / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y."; Artist's stamp on sheet verso, top, in black ink: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK".
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "For Nat Research Project / 1937 / Hand-blown Bottles -"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "65 [circled]"
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DescriptionImage of two men making handblown bottles. The are dressed in long pants, shirts, and short-brimmed hats. One man stands below assisting the man above who blows through a long metal tube.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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