Picking onions, age 12
- Title:
- Picking onions, age 12
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
Landscape and the Environment - Creator:
- Hine, Lewis
- Creation Date:
- ca. 1910
- ID Number:
- 2006.100.010
- File Name:
- 2006.100.010.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Land-body relationship
child labor
children
Agriculture - Measurement:
- 5.7 x 9.8 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Portrait of a grubby light skinned boy in a cap, dirty overalls and a long-sleeved shirt, looking directly into the camera from the center of the frame. He's not smiling but has a slight smirk to his expression. Behind him are rows of plants and empty wooden crates, the horizon is just above his shoulders. On the far-right edge of the frame is another person wearing a light colored shirt and cloche hat, but indistinguishable otherwise.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print.
Other prints by Hine held in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art collection. - Cite As:
- Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940), Picking onions, age 12, ca. 1910. Gelatin silver print, 2 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. (5.7 x 9.8 cm). Gift of Martin Z. Margulies, 2006.100.010.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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