Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(LEWIS HINE) (1874-1940)
Lewis Hine, Portfolio 1.
With 10 photographs spanning Hine's career (1905-1931), including Ellis Island, tenement homework, World War I, Work Portraits, and Empire State Building studies, selected from negatives at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. Silver contact prints, the images measuring 6 1/2x4 3/4 inches (16.5x12 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.); each is matted. 4to-sized folding jacket, stiff boards; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50 COPIES. New York: Light Impressions, Nd

Additional Details

Power House Mechanic (1920) Slovak Woman carrying all her possessions, Ellis Island (1905) Young German steelworker, Pittsburgh (1908) Kitchen in poor home (1912) Home Work (making garters), adolescents (ca. 1916) Untitled, Army Camp (ca. 1917) Untitled, Army Camp (variant) Open air school for TB children (ca. 1920) Red Cross nurse with patient (nd) Empire State Building (ca. 1931).