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Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940); 'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker); image 1
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940); 'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker); image 2
Lot 159

Lewis Wickes Hine
(1874-1940)
'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker)

1 – 10 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, New York

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940)

'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker), c. 1925
Gelatin silver print; signed in pencil, titled and captioned 'At the control wheel of a great "Calendar", making auto tires' in ink, and the photographer's Interpretive Photography / Hastings-on-Hudson credit stamp on the reverse, framed.
8 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (21.6 x 19.1 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
San Francisco Camerawork Benefit Auction, November 2016, Lot 43
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
Lewis Hine, Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines (New York, 1932), n.p.

Note
"Cities do not build themselves, machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men. We call this the Machine Age. But the more machines we use the more do we need real men to make and direct them."
- Lewis Hine's foreword, Men at Work, n.p.

Hine's caption for the present image explains that this worker is "at the control wheel of an enormous calendar, making automobile tires." (n.p.)

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