Lewis W. Hine
Precision Machine Worker

ArtistAmerican, 1874–1940
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Precision Machine Worker
Date1923
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 5/8 × 10 9/16 in. (34.6 × 26.8 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Mount: 19 3/8 × 15 15/16 in. (49.2 × 40.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Intermedics, Inc.
Object number86.377
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceIntermedics, Inc.; given to MFAH, 1986.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right in pencil " $500 "
lower left two illegible words in pencil
top left [upside down] " #8[circled] WG/$500 "

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1936
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1930
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September 1908
Gelatin silver print
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October 1913
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November 1913
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October 1913
Gelatin silver print
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Lewis W. Hine
October 1913
Gelatin silver print
84.324.9