- Titles 7 year old Ferris. Tiny newsie who did not know enough to make change for investigator. There are still too many of these little ones in larger cities. Location: Mobile, Alabama. (Proper)@Seven Year Old Ferris, a Tiny Newsie, Mobile, Alabama, 1914 (Former title)
- Artist Lewis Hine, American, 1874 - 1940
- Medium gelatin silver print
- Dimensions sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (11.7 × 16.5 cm) mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Victor Hanson III in honor of his father, Victor Hanson II, AFI.101.2016
- Work Type photograph
- Classification Photographs
- Signature Unsigned
- Inscription Verso, upper left, graphite: 3832 [Former label, exists only as photograph] verso of unidentified backing: Lewis Hine [underlined] / Purchased from Graphics International, / Washington D. C. 27 Sept. 1975 (invoice 2966). [Former label, preserved only as photograph] verso of unidentified backing: top [underlined] / Lewis W. Hine / Seven Year Old Ferris, a Tiny Newsie [underlined] / Mobile Alabama 1914. orig. photograph / from Child Labor Series 3832
- Provenance Graphics International, Washington, DC, by 1975; purchased by Harry Lunn, Jr. (1933-1998), a dealer, Washington, DC, 1975; with Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC, 1975-2016; purchased at Spring Estate Catalogue Auction, Sloans & Kenyon Sloan Auction, Chevy Chase, MD, April 30, 2016, lot 01018, as "Seven Year old Ferris, A Tiny Newsie, Mobile Alabama 1914," by Jo Tartt, Jr., a dealer, Washington, DC, 2016; purchased by the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, 2016