Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina
Acquired through exchange with George Eastman House
Catalogue
- Year
- 1908
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 11.6 × 15.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Lewis Hine
Artist
Photography
Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression captured young children working in harsh conditions, playing a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- Lewis Hine
- Year
- 1908
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 11.6 × 15.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1908-628146
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified