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Playground in Tenement Alley, Boston by Lewis Wickes Hine — VisualArtsDB

Playground in Tenement Alley, Boston

Playground in Tenement Alley, Boston

Lewis Wickes Hine

1909

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: sheet: 12.6 x 18 cm (4 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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