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Lewis Wickes Hine — Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston

Lewis Wickes Hine

Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston

1909

Children create joy amid industrial squalor, playing in the narrow confines of a mill town alley.

Medium
Gelatin silver print

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Lewis Wickes Hine, Playground in a Mill Village (Playground in a Tenement Alley), Boston, 1909

Children create joy amid industrial squalor, playing in the narrow confines of a mill town alley.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Year
1909
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Industrial, Documentary, American, Photograph, Early 20th Century, Melancholic, Urban, Children, Black and White, Social Realism

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