Boy Stealing Fruit from a Barrel, 1910

  • Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874-1940

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 4 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (11.7 × 8.9 cm) Sheet: 7 × 5 inches (17.8 × 12.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

71.22

Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, upper right corner: 1668 Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, top center: N. [illegible] 1668. Inscribed, in blue ink, on cream tissue, mounted on verso: National Child Labor Committee. | No. 1668. | This boy and brother were picking discarded fruit out of barrels in market near 14th St. N.Y. City. He was also (when apparently unobserved) stealing good fruit [underscored] from their barrels. | July 1910. | New York. | Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

(Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lewis Wickes Hine, Boy Stealing Fruit from a Barrel, 1910, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 71.22.