Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina, 1908
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LEWIS WICKES HINE (1874–1940)
Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina, 1908
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on card, printed by 1920s
signed and inscribed 'One of many children at work/ in Carolina cotton mills - 1908/ a regular worker - 48 inches high' by the artist in pencil (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 4 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (12.3 x 16.5 cm.)
Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina, 1908
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on card, printed by 1920s
signed and inscribed 'One of many children at work/ in Carolina cotton mills - 1908/ a regular worker - 48 inches high' by the artist in pencil (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 4 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (12.3 x 16.5 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.
Literature
Judith Mara Gutman, Lewis W. Hine and the American social conscience, Walker and Company, New York, 1967, front jacket.
Vicki Goldberg, Lewis W. Hine; Children at Work, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1999, p. 58.
Vicki Goldberg, Lewis W. Hine; Children at Work, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1999, p. 58.