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LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina.
Silver print, 4
3
/
4
x6
1
/
2
inches (12.1x16.5 cm.),
with a typed caption label with Hine’s credit and the date, on mount recto, and with Hine’s Interpretive
Photography hand stamp on mount verso. 1908; printed 1920s
[20,000/30,000]
The caption label on this print reads:“One of the many children at work in Carolina cotton mills—
1908. A regular worker,—48 inches high.” The text, which reminds us both of the height of the