P1975.41: Coal Breakers, Pennsylvania

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1975.41

People

Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)

Title

Coal Breakers, Pennsylvania

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1910, printed later?

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/285612

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, upper center, in reverse script: TOP 7 [circled]
• inscription: verso, lower left, oriented vertically, graphite: 14
• inscription: vintage mount removed from the print affixed to the verso of the print's mat, graphite: Breaker Boys Hine
• inscription: paper affixed to vintage mount affixed to verso of print's mat, black ink, typed: Breaker-boys in Pennsylvania coal mine,-/ January- 1911 / A group of boys picking slate from the newly mined coal. / At that time, many boys were employed in the mines & breakers. / Bending over the stream of coal sliding between their feet / with the air thick with coal-dust for long / days,-not a good / substitute for school. / Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine for National Child Labor Com'tee.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Walter Rosenblum

Accession Year

1975

Object Number

P1975.41

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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