Oct 31 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2684 -

Sale 2684 - Lot 58

Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Pennsylvania coal breakers [Breaker Boys]. 1912; printed circa 1931.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Hine's Interpretive Photography, Hastings-on-Hudson stamp, his signature in ink, and the title, negative date, and numeric notations in pencil in an unknown hand, on verso.

Provenance
The Collection of Mickey Pallas, Chicago; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; to the Present Owner in 1990

Reproduced
Stephen White, The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, p. 84

Exhibited
The Photograph and the American Dream, Van Gogh Museum, 2001