Oct 19, 2006 - Sale 2089

Sale 2089 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(HINE, LEWIS W.) (1874-1940)
Portfolio entitled "Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940," with 4 mounted photographs. Silver prints, 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.5x16.5 cm.) and the reverse. Folio, printed stiff wrappers; contents loose as issued. New York, 1942

Additional Details

The portfolio was produced in an edition of 30 by the Photo League after Hine's death; this copy is unnumbered and features 4 Ellis Island studies: "Peace." 1905 "Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage." 1905 "Russian Steel Workers." 1909 "Czecho-Slovak Grandmother" (Ellis Island). 1926.