Lot #609: LEWIS HINE - Ten Year Old Adolescent Girl, a Spinner in a North Carolina Cotton Mill - Original photogravure

 

Artist: Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940).
Title: "Ten Year Old Adolescent Girl, a Spinner in a North Carolina Cotton Mill".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: Composed 1908. Printed later.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in. (295 x 398 mm). Image size: 8 13/16 x 11 13/16 in. (224 x 300 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/1,000
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition.
Comment(s): One of Hine’s most famous images, featured on his Wikipedia page. Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States. [27165-3-600-NA]