At the Close of the Day, Pennsylvania

January 7, 1911

Lewis Wickes Hine

Artist, American, American, 1874 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.2 × 16.4 cm (4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 12.7 × 17.7 cm (5 × 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.145.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1997; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in black ink: 1925; top right in graphite perpendicular: N. 1925; top right in graphite: 90.2; upper left in graphite: 9-34302; upper center in graphite underlined: Beard; center left in graphite: crop and make / 5 3/4 wide; center right printed in purple ink perpendicular: National Child Labor Committee. [crossed out with graphite] / At the close of the day. Waiting for the / cage to go up. This cage is entirely open / on two sides and not very well protected / on the other two, and is usually crowded / like this. Pa., Jan. 7, 1911. / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.; by unknown hand, center right in graphite perpendicular: Chapter I- Interdependence; lower left in graphite perpendicular: chap; bottom right in black ink inverted: 1925

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