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Welsh Coal Miner, West Virginia Mine by Lewis Wickes Hine — VisualArtsDB

Welsh Coal Miner, West Virginia Mine

Welsh Coal Miner, West Virginia Mine

Lewis Wickes Hine

1909

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 12.6 × 17.3 cm (5 × 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paperCollected by Hugh Edwards

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