Live Auction 15396Portrait of a Collector: The John M. Bransten Collection of Photographs
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940)
Lot 5

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940)

Furman Owens, 12 years old, Olympia Mill, Columbia, South Carolina, 1909

Closed6 April 2017

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Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940)
Furman Owens, 12 years old, Olympia Mill, Columbia, South Carolina, 1909
gelatin silver print
numbered 'n.557' and '557' in pencil (verso); credited, titled and dated '1913' on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (11.4 x 16.5 cm.)
sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.8 x 17.9 cm.)

The Witkin Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by John M. Bransten, San Francisco, 1972;
by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Lewis Hine's full field notes for this image read, 'Furman Owens, 12 years old. Can't read. Doesn't know ABCs. "Yes, I want to learn, but can't when I work all the time." Been in mills 4 years, 3 years in Olympia Mill. Columbia, S.C., Jan. 16, 1909' (Vicki Goldberg, Lewis W. Hine, Children at Work, p. 65).