Salonika, Greece: Refugee Child

Salonika, Greece: Refugee Child

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Salonika, Greece: Refugee Child

December 1918
Gelatin silver print
Image: 22.7 x 17 cm
Overall: 22.9 x 17 cm
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1977.0175.0116
Inscriptions verso-(ink) "Refugee child-Salonika"
(label) "X-57 Pillsbury's Extra. (lined out) Flour sacks will do
for trousers if no other cloth can be had. This was one of thousands
of non-descript costumes in Salonika, no two alike."
(stamp) "Credit Line (underlined) Photo by Lewis W. Hine/American Red
Cross/Special Survey Mission" (stamp) "Lewis W. Hine Interpretive
Photography Hastings-on-Hudson, New York" (pencil) "57"
"X-57" recto-(in image) "X-57"; "7" (reversed)
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