Details
LEWIS WICKES HINE (1874–1940)
Italian Immigrant from Albania, Ellis Island, 1905
gelatin silver contact print, probably printed 1920s–1930s
credited on affixed International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House label (mat, interior); credited, titled and dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image/sheet: 7 x 5 in. (17.9 x 12.8 cm.)

Provenance
Acquired from the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1974.
Literature
Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography: From dry-plate to digital: the Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Mo., 1999, p. 107.
Exhibition catalogue, Lewis Hine: From the collections of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2012, p. 245.

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