Breaker Boys in Pennsylvania Coal Mine

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Lewis Wickes Hine

Title

Breaker Boys in Pennsylvania Coal Mine

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

Date

Made 1920

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, in negative, lower right, backwards, below image, in white: "136 [?]"; inscribed and stamped verso, across left half, in graphite and blue ink: "IC4 [inscribed in graphite] / Lewis W. Hine / Interpretive Photography / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON / NEW YORK [stamped in blue ink] / Breaker boys in Pa / coal mine 1920-"

Dimensions

Image: 11.8 × 16.9 cm (4 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David Vestal

Reference Number

1965.290

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