Raising the Mast, Empire State Building

Lewis Wickes Hine

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Caption

Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874–1940). Raising the Mast, Empire State Building, 1931. Gelatin silver print, image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.3 x 26.7 cm) sheet: 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (34.9 x 27.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Walter and Naomi Rosenblum, 84.237.10. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Photography

Title

Raising the Mast, Empire State Building

Date

1931

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Classification

Photograph

Dimensions

image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.3 x 26.7 cm) sheet: 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (34.9 x 27.3 cm)

Signatures

Signed on verso in pencil: "Hine"

Markings

Stamped in ink on verso with studio stamp: "Lewis Hine interpretive photography, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York"; "Photograph by Lewis Hine from the Walter and Naomi Rosenblum collection"

Credit Line

Gift of Walter and Naomi Rosenblum

Accession Number

84.237.10

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