Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in cotton mill, North Pownal, Vermont

1910

Lewis Hine

Associated Names
Lewis Wickes Hine

Artist, American, 1874 - 1940

This sepia-toned photograph depicts a young girl standing next to a piece of machinery in an industrial setting. The girl has pale skin and dark hair that is tied up behind her head, and she looks out at us with large eyes and a neutral expression. She is wearing a plaid apron over a patterned dress with rolled-up sleeves, and her feet are bare and dirty. She has one of her arms bent behind her, resting casually on the large machine, which is full of spindles and spools loaded with white thread. Debris is scattered on the dark wooden floor.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.164.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lewis Hine, New York; National Child Labor Committee, New York; (Alan Klotz Gallery, New York); Private Collection; NGA purchase (through Alan Klotz Gallery, New York), 2014.

Associated Names

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

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 1050; stamped, upper center in black ink: Lewis W. Hine / Interpretive Photography / Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; by unknown hand, lower center: PO789LH; lower right: 16; on label, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 280; typed in black ink, upper center: ANAEMIC LITTLE SPINNER IN A / NEW ENGLAND COTTON MILL.; lower left: Cotton Mills / N-1050; lower center: Photo-Study by Lewis W. Hine; lower right: North Pownal, Vt. / August 1910; stamped in black ink, lower right: NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE / 145 EAST 32nd STREET / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 16

Wikidata ID

Q64157447

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