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Lewis Wickes Hine — Slavic Miner's Wife, New Dubois, Pennsylvania

Lewis Wickes Hine

Slavic Miner's Wife, New Dubois, Pennsylvania

1920

Captured during the height of industrial America, the weathered face and weary posture of a coal miner's wife embodies the human cost of the nation's energy demands.

Medium
Gelatin silver print

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Lewis Wickes Hine, Slavic Miner's Wife, New Dubois, Pennsylvania, 1920

Captured during the height of industrial America, the weathered face and weary posture of a coal miner's wife embodies the human cost of the nation's energy demands.

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Year
1920
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Industrial, American, Photograph, Documentary Photography, Early 20th Century, Portrait, Serious, Figurative, Black and White, Social Realism

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