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Cotton Mill Worker
Creator
Lewis W. HineAmerican Photographer · 1874–1940
All works by this person →Lewis Hine was trained to be an educator in Chicago and New York. A project photographing on Ellis Island with students from the Ethical Culture School in New York galvanized his recognition of the value of documentary photography in education. Soon after, he became a sociological photographer, establishing a studio in upstate New York in 1912. For nearly ten years Hine was the photographer for th
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1908
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 47ae419a-c7e2-4208-82ad-f08228525159
A young girl posed within a cotton mill. She wears a dress with a shirt beneath and hair tied back. She stands barefoot.
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