Oct 20, 2022 - Sale 2618

Sale 2618 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Boys working at the textile mill, Great Falls Mfg. Co, Somersworth, New Hampshire. Silver print, the image measuring 4 3/4x6 3/4 inches (10.2x15.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger. 1909

Hine's description from the Library of Congress reads: "Smallest boy does not work in the mill The rest do Great Falls Mfg Co, Somersworth, NH Boy next in size to that one is James Carrigan, 24 Highland St The other small boy is Fred Bushey, 42 Main Street One of the smaller ones said he has been in the mill for three years."