Lot 160

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Description:

Lewis Hine Collection of 177 glass lantern slides, all 3.25" x 4", with varying subjects including red light districts, Ellis Island, steel mills, miners, coal and breaker boys, sweatshops, children, city slums, derelicts, construction camps, cotton mills, and tuberculosis; accompanied by a pamphlet mounted on black construction paper which advertises Hine's Bureau of Social Photography and stereopticon slides, likely made from these glass lantern slides; housed in a wooden box. Seven slides marked by Werner Fetz, 54 unmarked, 112 marked by Lewis Hine, and four marked for the National Child Labor Committee (presumably also by Hine). Provenance: The consignor's grandfather, Werner Fetz, worked with Hine, as did her great-uncle, Paul Schumm. Seven Werner Fetz lantern slides appear in the collection, and Paul Schumm worked as a darkroom assistant for Lewis Hine. Paul Schum and his sister (Beatrice Schumm Fetz) attended the Ethical Culture School while Hine was teaching there. Four of the unmarked lantern slides are labeled by Hine for the National Child Labor Committee, for whom he worked. Hine apparently used the slides in lectures he gave, and perhaps Werner Fetz used slides as well as for his own for lectures. Fours slides have cracks on one side.[Schumm-Fetz Family Ownership]

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December 7, 2009 6:30 PM EST
Plainville, CT, US

Winter Associates, Inc.

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