Lewis Hine: career timeline

American · 1874–1940 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 62 of 68 lots (91% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Lewis Hine: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1900s	23	14	$11.6kSign up	Photograph
1910s	21	12	$1.3kSign up	Photograph
1920s	8	3	$450Sign up	Photograph
1930s	10	7	$10kSign up	Photograph

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1900s 23 works

Sold: 14 of 23
Median: $11.6kSign up
Average: $19.9kSign up
Typical size: 5 × 6.5 in (12 × 17 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (23)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

1905 Her First Penny, Italian Child at Ellis Island$15.1kSign up
c. 1905 A Tenement Madonna, Ellis Island$7.5kSign up
1905 Italian Mother and Child, Ellis IslandUnsold
1905 Italian Family Looking for Lost Baggage, Ellis Island, New YorkUnsold
1905 Climbing into America, Ellis Island, New York$40kSign up
c. 1907 Tenement Product, Chicago$52.5kSign up
1908 5 P.M., Boys Going Home from Glass Works$4.8kSign up
1908 Spinner$10.6kSign up
1908 One of the little spinners working in a South Carolina Cotton Mill$8.8kSign up
1908 Ten Year Old Spinner in N. Carolina Cotton Mill$12.5kSign up
c. 1908 Newsies at Brooklyn Bridge Starting Out at 1 a.m. in a Blizzard on a Sunday$22.5kSign up
c. 1908 Selected Images of Coal MinersUnsold

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1910s 21 works

Sold: 12 of 21
Median: $1.3kSign up
Average: $2.1kSign up
Typical size: 4.5 × 6.5 in (12 × 17 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (21)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (2), Sunsets & night (1)

1910 A Thirteen Year old Grocery Boy, Maryland$1.5kSign up
c. 1910 Child at Window$1.3kSign up
1910 Housing for Farm Workers$350Sign up
1910 Joseph Tucci$2kSign up
1910 Young Slavic Immigrant at Ellis IslandUnsold
c. 1910 Selected Images (urban child labor)Unsold
c. 1910 Selected Images (rural child labor)Unsold
c. 1910 New York CityUnsold
c. 1910 Selected Images$500Sign up
1910 [Annie Card] anaemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, Vermont, August,$10kSign up
c. 1911 Selected Images of Newsies and Delivery Boys$1.2kSign up
1911 Coal Breakers$1.4kSign up

Show 9 more (1910s)

1920s 8 works

Sold: 3 of 8
Median: $450Sign up
Average: $1.2kSign up
Typical size: 5 × 6.5 in (12 × 17 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (8)
Subjects: Landscapes (1)

c. 1920 Vera Hill, 5 years old, Cotton Picker, Comanche County, Oklahoma$300Sign up
1920 Selected ImagesUnsold
c. 1925 'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker)$2.8kSign up
c. 1925 'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker)Unsold
1929 SKILLED MECHANIC IN MACHINE SHOP, 1929, vintage photograph$450Sign up
1929 SKILLED MECHANIC IN MACHINE SHOP, 1929, vintage photographUnsold
1929 SKILLED MECHANIC IN MACHINE SHOP, 1929, vintage photographUnsold
1929 SKILLED MECHANIC IN MACHINE SHOP, 1929, vintage photographUnsold

1930s 10 works

Sold: 7 of 10
Median: $10kSign up
Average: $10.7kSign up
Typical size: 7.5 × 7.5 in (19 × 19 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (10)
Subjects: —

Creation date not recorded

6 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $181Sign up
Average: $387Sign up
Typical size: 4.5 × 6.5 in (12 × 17 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

sold 2016 Seven Year Old Ferris$800Sign up
sold 2017 Near Elizabethtown, Ky$181Sign up
sold 2017 Breaker, Locust Gap, Pa$181Sign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $819Sign up
Average: $819Sign up
Typical size: 6.5 × 4.5 in (17 × 12 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

sold 2023 Heart of TurbineResult not published
sold 2024 Ellis Island Madonna$1.3kSign up
sold 2024 Jewish Grandmother at Ellis Island$378Sign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Lewis Hine auction results →