Research Catalog

Title

Unit V, miscellaneous photographs [graphic] / Lewis W. Hine.

Author

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940

Publication

1899-1930.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

85 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller on mats 27 x 34 cm. or smaller

Summary

Photographs of Hine, his family, in particular his son Corydon as a baby; streets scenes showing women in large hats; workers including millinary girls, transient workers, doctors and nurses; children at the New York Public Library; Dunkard and Mennonite man and woman; Armenian, Jewish, Finnish, Serbian, Slavic, Slovak immigrants and an African American from Puerto Rico at Ellis Island; tenement scenes, including family groups, home work, children in streets, including boy drinking from fire hydrant and a newsboy; view of filaments through a microscope; farm landscapes; an Americanization Day parade, July 4, 1916, in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Greek shepherds, including young woman knitting, near Mt. Parnassus; Greek refugees in an inn, Central Serbia, Christmas Eve, 1919; market day in Semendria, Serbia; Parthenon and American doughboy who was born near there; marble statue of a woman found on the site of the Garden of Sallust, Rome, at the Isabella Gardiner Museum, Boston. Includes some views that are duplicates, variants, or replacements for images in Unit I and Unit II.

Subjects

• Silver gelatin prints
• Women > Clothing and dress
• Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
• Child labor > United States
• Streets > New York (State) > New York
• Portraits
• Greeks > Serbia
• Immigrants > United States
• African Americans
• Children sleeping > United States
• Infants
• Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 > Family
• Serbia
• Photographic prints
• Libraries > New York (State) > New York
• Greece
• Military personnel > American
• Families > United States
• Postcards

Genre/Form

• Portraits.
• Postcards.
• Photographic prints.
• Silver gelatin prints.

Note

• Title from calendar.
• Includes photographs by Hine, and Nicholson of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
• Some photographs bear inscriptions, including one that had been sent as a postcard to Frank A. Manny. Some are matted.
• Views are numbered 1-88.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Reproduction (note)

• consists of study prints.

Provenance (note)

• Transferred from U.S. History Local History and Geneology Division, 1988; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.

Call Number

MFZ (Hine) 95-38

OCLC

NYPG95-F91

Author

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

Title

Unit V, miscellaneous photographs [graphic] / Lewis W. Hine.

Imprint

1899-1930.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Reproduction

Milstein Division copy (AZ 19-240) consists of study prints.

Provenance

Transferred from U.S. History Local History and Geneology Division, 1988; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.

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Research Call Number

MFZ (Hine) 95-38

AZ 19-240