Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Sears-Roebuck Shoe Factories, Springvale, Maine. Silver contact print, the image measuring 4 3/4x6 1/2 inches (12.1x16.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with notations, including "Springvale, Me," in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1909

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Hine's photo-reportage for the National Child Labor Committee took him to Maine in 1909. The youthful figures in the foreground gaze at the photographer with a focused intensity that reflects Hine's role as an investigator and outsider.