(HINE LEWIS W) Lewis W Hine 1874 1940

Sale 1954 - Lot 468

Price Realized: $ 1,610

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(HINE, LEWIS W.)
Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940. With 3 (of 4) photographs. Silver prints, 4 1/2x6 1/2 inches (11.4x16.5 cm.) and the reverse, affixed to the original mount. Folio, printed stiff wrappers; contents loose as issued. one of 30 numbered sets. New York: Photo League, 1942New York: Photo League, 1942

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After Hine's death, his son, Corydon, gave all of his father's negatives and prints to the Photo League. The colophon states: "The prints in this portfolio were made to match, as far as possible, the tone and quality of the original prints made by Lewis Hine himself from these same negatives." Includes: "Italian Family Seeking Lost Baggage" (1905) " Russian Steel Workers" (1909) "Czecho-Slovak Grandmother" (1926).