Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Climbing into America (Ellis Island group). Silver print, the image measuring 6 3/8x4 3/8 inches (16.3x11.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Hine Photo Company, Yonkers hand stamp, his Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on-Hudson hand stamp, a Set. No. 3 hand stamp and his title and numeric notations, in ink and pencil, on verso. 1908

Additional Details

Originally from the Collection of Isador Sy Seidman.


Charities and the Commons, April 3, 1909.

Gutman, Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), Two Perspectives (Grossman Publishers), p. 9.

Steinorth, ed., Lewis Hine, Passionate Journey, Photographs 1905-1937 (Edition Stemmle), p. 35.