Lewis W. Hine
Slovak Mother, Ellis Island

Slovak Mother, Ellis Island

Public Domain

ArtistAmerican, 1874–1940
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Slovak Mother, Ellis Island
  • from the series Ellis Island
Datec. 1905
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 9/16 × 4 11/16 in. (16.7 × 11.9 cm)
 Sheet: 7 × 4 15/16 in. (17.8 × 12.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joan Morgenstern in honor of Isabell Smith Herzstein
Object number2000.805
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York]; purchased by Joan Morgenstern, Houston, February 12, 1990; given to MFAH, 2000.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top in ink " Slovak ", " 2023 "
in pencil " 29 "

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Gelatin silver print
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Four year old cotton picker. Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.
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Four year old cotton picker. Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.
October 1913
Gelatin silver print
84.324.9
Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly and a seven year old who picks fifty pounds a day. McKinney [vicinity], Texas.
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Four year old cotton picker who picks fifteen pounds a day regularly and a seven year old who picks fifty pounds a day. McKinney [vicinity], Texas.
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Gelatin silver print
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