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Tragedy of Old Age by Lewis Hine — VisualArtsDB

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Tragedy of Old Age

1912

Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed 1945
Dimensions: 4 1/2 × 6 3/8" (11.4 × 16.2 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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