On view
Photography
Young Boy at Vegetable Market,
ca. 1910
Lewis Wickes Hine, 1874–1940; born Oshkosh, WI; died Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; active New York City, NY
2010-58
Young Boy at Vegetable Market bears marks of use by the National Child Labor Committee, a children’s- and worker’s-rights organization that hired Hine to travel throughout the United States documenting the harrowing experiences of working children. Many of Hine’s photographs were edited to suit the needs of the publication in which they were reproduced. In this photograph, the image of the young boy was outlined with white paint before being rephotographed, printed at a reduced scale per the listed dimensions (“2 1⁄2”), and cut out along the white outline to be pasted into a newspaper, broadside, or pamphlet.
Information
Title
Young Boy at Vegetable Market
Dates
ca. 1910
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print with paint additions
Dimensions
11.8 × 16.8 cm (4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
mat: 35.6 × 43.2 cm (14 × 17 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2010-58
Place Made
North America, United States, New York, New York
Culture
Techniques
The artist. [Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2010. .
