Mery Horn, a hunchback condition aggravated by the heavy load of papers she carried. Hartford, Connecticut, March 1909, March 1909

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Harry H. Lunn, Jr., through Graphics International Ltd.)

Accession Number

2015.19.4164

Artists / Makers

Lewis Hine (artist) American, 1874 - 1940

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top left corner in graphite: 591; top right corner stamped in purple ink: -16-; center perpendicular in blue ink: N; center perpendicular stamped in light purple ink with border: IN ORDERING USE THIS NUMBER / N.[black ink] / HINE PHOTO COMPANY / 27 GRANT AVE. LINCOLN PARK / YONKERS, N.Y.; center left perpendicular stamped in black ink: Set No. ___; vertical along left edge in graphite: n. 591

Provenance

Lewis Hine, New York, National Child Labor Committee, New York; Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd., Washington, DC; Harry H. Lunn, Jr., Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Graphics International

Exhibition History

1977: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, December 20, 1977 - January 29, 1978.

Bibliography

2008: Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 90, 169.