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.
Lewis Hine
1914; printed 1975
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)
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
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
