Provenance

Private collection; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Leslie J. Schreyer, New York, March 2007; gift to NGA, 2024.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, across top in graphite: Slovaks Immigration 4.4120 / Climbing into America / Just arrived at [underlined in red pencil] Ellis Island / [underlined in graphite] Hine; signed by artist, center right in graphite: [underlined in graphite] 50; signed by artist, center left in blue pencil: Immigration; stamped upper center in blue ink: LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK; stamped center in black ink: ARCHIVES; stamped center in red ink: RETURN TO / LOOK LIBRARY; stamped lower right vertically in faint red ink: RETURN TO / LOOK LIBRARY; stamped bottom right vertically in blue ink: LS 29018 / MAY 47; by unknown hand, bottom left inverted in graphite: AK698-090; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF132694; lower center stamped inverted in black ink: LOOK PIX / Rights Purchased Magazine [square with X by unknown hand in black ink] / Syndicate [square] / SOURCE [dotted line signed by unknown hand in black ink: Lewis W. Hine] / PRICE [dotted line signed by unknown hand in black ink: 5[raised and underlined]00]