Hartford Newsboys, 1909

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 11.9 x 16.9 cm (4 11/16 x 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 12 x 17.7 cm (4 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joshua P. Smith Collection, Gift in honor of Sarah Greenough

Accession Number

2001.128.38

Artists / Makers

Lewis Hine (artist) American, 1874 - 1940

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

center verso in black ink: Hartford newsboys. / Boy in middle, Joseph / De Lucco, has been selling / for 8 yrs. Was arrested / for stealing papers a while ago. / Mar 5/09 / Lewis Hine; center right verso in graphite: 613; lower right verso in graphite: 613

Provenance

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Smith, Joshua P.

Exhibition History

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015