Lewis W. Hine
Czecho-Slovak Grandmother, Ellis Island

Czecho-Slovak Grandmother, Ellis Island

Public Domain

ArtistAmerican, 1874–1940
PublisherAmerican, active 1941–1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Czecho-Slovak Grandmother, Ellis Island
  • from the series Ellis Island
Date1926, printed 1940s
Place depictedEllis Island, New Jersey, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 3/4 × 4 3/8 in. (14.6 × 11.1 cm)
 Sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 3/8 in. (14.6 × 11.1 cm)
 Mount: 12 × 10 in. (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2012.516.3
Non exposé

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Department
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Object Type
Provenance[Sotheby's, New York, May 7-8, 1985, lot 526]; purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston, 1985; given to MFAH, 2012.
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