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Description

1. 68 photoprints : silver gelatin photoprints, b&w; 5 x 7 in. or smaller, on 8 x 10 in. mounts.

Summary

1. French, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Slavic, Slovak and Welsh workers and families in New York City and State, Pittsburgh and eastern Pennsylvania, Chicago and other locations. Consists of portraits, street views, men and women at work, relaxing, with families; children with adults, at play, studying; immigrants availing themselves of educational, medical and social services.

Subject

1. Poor persons > United States
2. Washington (D.C.)
3. Clinics > United States
4. Bathing > United States
5. Portraits
6. New York State Canal System (N.Y.)
7. Music > United States
8. Chicago (Ill.)
9. Railroad employees > United States
10. Streets > New York (State) > New York
11. Photographic prints
12. Nursing > New York > New York
13. Shoe shiners > New York > New York
14. Markets > United States
15. French Americans
16. Metalworking > New York > New York
17. Cigar industry > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh
18. Children playing > United States
19. Homestead (Pa.)
20. New York (State)
21. Women > United States > Employment
22. Bread & soup lines > United States
23. German Americans
24. Immigrants > United States
25. Laborers > United States
26. Art education > Connecticut > New Haven
27. Letter carriers > New York > New York
28. Tenement houses > New York > New York
29. Clothing industry > United States
30. Rochester (N.Y.)
31. Welsh Americans
32. Lodging houses > United States
33. Eating & drinking > United States
34. Children reading & writing
35. Slovak Americans
36. Child laborers > United States
37. Italian Americans
38. Jews > United States
39. Families > United States
40. Interior architecture > United States
41. Foraging > United States
42. Orphanages > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh
43. Irish Americans
44. Pittsburgh (Pa.)
45. Employment agenicies > New York > New York
46. Steel industry > Pennsylvania
47. Police > New York (State) > New York
48. Playgrounds > United States
49. Laundry > United States
50. Tenement houses > Illinois > Chicago
51. New York (N.Y.)
52. Silver gelatin prints
53. Wrestling > Illinois > Chicago
54. Printing > United States
55. Miners > Pennsylvania
56. Slavic Americans
57. Textile industry > United States
58. Social settlements > United States

Genre/Form

1. Portraits.
2. Photographic prints.
3. Silver gelatin prints.

Contents

1. 33. A labor agency on lower West side, New York City, 1910 -- 34. An Italian mother, Lower East Side, New York City -- 35. Group of Italian street laborers, working under Sixth Ave. Elevated, New York City, 1910 -- 36. Jo - Italian track-walker on Pennsylvania Railroad, near New York City, 1930 --37. An Italian craftsman working in bronze, New York City, 1930 -- 38. Italian worker on New York State Barge Canal, 1912 -- 39. The Bunk house of an Italian worker on New York State Barge Canal, 1912 -- 40. An Italian clothing worker in factory in Rochester, N.Y., 1915 -- 41. Pouring steel (old way) ... in Pittsburgh, Ft. Pitt Steel Co., 1909 -- 42. At a Russian boarding house, Homestead, Pa., 1909 -- 43. Wash at the "Bosh", 1909 -- 44. A Slavic construction gang laying new tracks for New York State Barge Canal, 1910 -- 45. A Slavic weaver in a New England textile factory where high grade velvets are made, 1932 -- 46. A Slovak steel-worker, Homestead, Pa., 1909 -- 47. Slavic foreman in a Pennsylvania hard coal mine, 1909 -- 48. Slavic coal miner in Pittsburgh district, 1910 -- 49. Boy beginning the miner's life in Pennsylvania hard coal mine, 1930 -- 50. The old printer, 1905 -- 51. Follow the gleam, 1910 -- 52. French worker making high-grade tapestries, New York City, 1920 -- 53. Irish stogie-maker, Pittsburgh, 1909 -- 54. Irish mailman, New York City, 1925 -- 55. Jewish garment worker, New York City.
2. 56. A friendly argument, probably political, to be seen frequently in Jewish district of any large city, 1920 -- 57. An Italian family sits for its portrait in Chicago tenement near Hull House, 1910 -- 58. A Slavic boarding house in factory district near New York City, 1912 -- 59. Italian family has supper, East Side, New York City, 1915 -- 60. Bedroom of Italian family in a rear tenement of New York East Side, 1910 -- 61. Living rooms of a tenement family near Hull House, Chicago, 1910 -- 62. Slavic family living in a shack in cannery community in western New York, 1912 --63. This store is home for this little Jewish child, Chicago, 1912 -- 64. Boy in old-time tenement gets the water for his family from a community spigot in the hall, East Side, New York City, 1909 -- 65. East Side, New York City, 1905 -- 66. Kitchen scene in Chicago tenement near Hull House, 1912 -- 67. A visiting nurse showing Jewish mother how to care for the baby, East Side, New York, 1925 -- 68. Portrait of a Slavic family with a father ... desperately ill, Chicago, 1910 -- 69. Wife of a Slavic miner ... Eastern Pennsylvania, does the weekly wash, 1920 -- 70. The bar-room in a construction camp on New York State Barge Canal, 1910 -- 71. Market day in Homestead, Pa., 1909 -- 72. Market day in Jewish quarter of East Side, New York City, 1912 -- 73. Cop settles a dispute in a friendly way, West Side, New York City, 1910 -- 74. The Cop brings them home alive, East Side, New York City, 1915.
3. 75. Fresh air for the baby, Italian Quarter, New York City, 1910 -- 76. Garbage gleaner, Lower West Side, New York City, 1915 -- 77. Beggar, New York City, 1915 -- 78. Rendezvous of the gang on the banks of the Hudson down by the sugar mill, Yonkers, 1906 -- 79. Kindling, New York City, Italian quarter, 1910 -- 80. One of the underprivileged, Hull House neighbor, Chicago, 1910 -- 81. This is such a "Friendly town"! New York City street, 1915 -- 82. The singing class at Hull House, Chicago, 1910 -- 83. A young refugee with musical talent receives instruction in Hull House music studio, 1910 -- 84. The Greek wrestling club at Hull House, Chicago, 1910 -- 85. One of the Hull House neighbors, 1910 -- 86. "Evensong": steelworker in Homestead, Pa. entertains his boarders after the day's work, 1909 -- 87. A happy group in one of the early playground, Washington, D.C., 1909 -- 88. One of the "annexes" to a public library, much used after school hours, 1915 -- 89. Sandlot baseball, in early type of playground, Newark, N. J., 1915- 90. Back yard playground used by workers' children, Boston, 1912 -- 91. Bootblacks, New York City, 1915 -- 92. Class of young sculptors in New Haven, Conn. Community House, 1935 -- 93. Waiting for the nurse in a Chicago clinic, 1910 -- 94. In a children's home, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1909 -- 95. A sector of the "Bread line" at the Bowery Mission, New York City, 1906 -- 96. An Italian family waiting to go to the clinic, Boston 1910.
4. 97. Patient and nurse in New York City clinic, 1915 -- 98. in the early days, clinic facilities were simple, 1910, 99. An accident case in a clinic, New York City, 1915 -- 100. "Tain't-so-bad"! The school nurse in New York City kindergarten - 1920.

Call number

1. MFZ (Hine) 95-34

Note

1. Selected, printed, organized and prepared in 1939 for the Russell Sage Foundation Library, New York City. Photographs mounted on grey board with typed labels bearing image number, title and caption, date, and credit line "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine." Stamped verso with Russell Sage Foundation Library stamps.
2. Hine's work photographing immigrants is described by him in a six page typescript text bound in a pamphlet folder accompanying the collection.
3. Numbered 33-100.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Additional formats (note)

1. Copy negatives available.

Reproduction (note)

1. consists of study prints.

Provenance (note)

1. Transferred from U.S. History Local History and Geneology Division, 1988; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Lewis Wickes Hine Collection.

Author

1. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.

Title

1. Unit I, Immigration. (2), Life and labor in America with emphasis upon racial contributions [graphic] / Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine.

Imprint

1. 1905-1935, printed 1939.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Additional formats

1. Copy negatives available.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Lewis Wickes Hine Collection.

Reproduction

1. Milstein Division copy (AZ 19-236) consists of study prints.

Provenance

1. Transferred from U.S. History Local History and Geneology Division, 1988; Gift of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, 1949.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Research call number

1. MFZ (Hine) 95-34
2. AZ 19-236 [part 2]