Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
HINE, LEWIS W. (1874-1940)
"Wilbur Gold, Western Union messenger #14." Silver print, 4 1/2x5 1/4 inches (11.4x13.3 cm.), with Hine's numeric notation 1483 in the negative and with the notation again, in pencil, and the typed N.C.L.C. label with Hine's credit, caption, and date, on verso. 1911
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The caption reads, in full: "Wilbur Gold, Western Union messenger #14, twelve years old, works until 11 P.M. usually, but all night when they are busy (See report of L.W.H.)."