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First Work in America

(American, 1874–1940)
1910
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 24 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 20 cm (9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit LinePolaroid Foundation Purchase Fund
Accession number1973.614
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsOn verso in pencil: "First work in America - Italian immigrant carries garments to tenement home for the family to sew - 1910 N. Y. East Side", on verso typed: Lewis W. Hine Memorial Collection, Photo League.
ProvenanceCarl Siembab Gallery of Photography, Boston; purchased December 1973.