Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 7,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Italian family in the baggage room, Ellis Island. Silver contact print, the image measuring 6 3/4x4 3/4 inches (17.1x12.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Hine's Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on-Hudson hand stamp and his title, date, and numeric notations, in pencil, on verso. 1905; printed circa 1931

Additional Details

Originally from the Collection of Isador Sy Seidman.


Rosenblum and Trachtenberg, America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940 (Aperture), p. 30.

Steinorth, ed., Lewis Hine, Passionate Journey, Photographs 1905-1937 (Edition Stemmle), p. 36.