Lewis W. Hine
Italian Family Looking for Lost Baggage, Ellis Island

ArtistAmerican, 1874–1940
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Italian Family Looking for Lost Baggage, Ellis Island
  • from the series Ellis Island
Date1905, printed 1939
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
Mount: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in memory of Joe Mundy
Object number2002.144
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceAnne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso mount upper left: "Photo Lewis Hine / Hastings on Hudson, NY"
Marked in pencil on verso mount center: "Immigant (sic) family / in the baggage room / of Ellis Island 1905 / Italian"
Marked in pencil on verso mount, lower right: "CK 638 / Ce / 150"
upper right corner " 339 "
Exhibition label on verso mount, left of center: "One of 530 Prints Exhibited at the / 6th INTERNATIONAL SALON / OF PHOTOGRAPHY / P.P.A. / NEW YORK / 1939 / For the duration of / THE WORLD'S FAIR / by the Pictorial Photographers of America / from / May 1st to October 31st / at the / American Museum of Natural History"

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