Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company
September 1913
Lewis Hine
Artist, American, 1874 - 1940
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 11.3 × 16.4 cm (4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
sheet: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 in.) -
Accession Number
2025.107.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC); Maurizia Grossman, Washington, DC, 1975; gift to NGA, 2025.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 3559; upper right in black ink on applied label inverted: U.S Hist. 189/22-7; center left in graphite perpendicular: N 3559; bottom center inverted: US Hist. 10/22/70-3; on frame verso, printed in black ink on attached card: No. 3559 / LEWIS W. HINE / Waco, Texas, Sept. 1913 / "Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph / Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red / Light Dangers." / Ill. Judith Mara Gutman, Lewis W. Hine and the [underlined from comma] / American Social Conscience [underlined], Walker and Co., New York, 1967, p. 191.