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Lewis Wickes Hine — Poor Rural Family Living In A Smoke-House, Oklahoma, In Care Of Red Cross

Lewis Wickes Hine

Poor Rural Family Living In A Smoke-House, Oklahoma, In Care Of Red Cross

1931

Depression-era poverty receives compassionate treatment in this photograph of a family reduced to makeshift shelter. Hine's documentary approach influenced later government photographers working for New Deal agencies.

Medium
Gelatin silver print

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Lewis Wickes Hine, Poor Rural Family Living In A Smoke-House, Oklahoma, In Care Of Red Cross, 1931

Depression-era poverty receives compassionate treatment in this photograph of a family reduced to makeshift shelter. Hine's documentary approach influenced later government photographers working for New Deal agencies.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Year
1931
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Family, Monochrome, Poverty, American, Documentary Photography, Gelatin Silver Print, Historical, Rural, Black and White, Social Realism

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