PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
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This was the high-tide of tenement homework in New York City when children like these worked at flower-making, picking out nut-meats and many other and many other things long days and even into the night,(this was going on at 8;00 P.M.) Their schooling, health and recreation suffered very much.
1912
Gelatin silver print, printed 1920s.
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
Credited and titled 'Tenement Homework' in pencil on the mount; credited in ink, 'Lewis W. Hine/ Interpretive Photography/ Hastings-on-Hudson, New York' credit and Walter and Naomi Rosenblum Collection stamps on the verso; typed descriptive title on a label affixed to the reverse of the mount.
Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,000
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