[Maurice, a five year old refugee]
Photograph
[Maurice, a five year old refugee]
1919
Gelatin silver print
11.9 x 17.4 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1977.0175.0003
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Lewis W. Hine Work Portraits Hastings-on-
Hudson, N.Y."
(applied typed label) "W-155. Maurice. Five years old, four years a
refugee. When he was a year old, his father went to war and the rest
of the family became exiles. He now lives in a corrugated iron hut on
the site of their former home at Equancourt, France, between Peronne
and Cambrai. Two hundred of the seven hundred people of the village
were back and all were living in improvised shelters."
Hudson, N.Y."
(applied typed label) "W-155. Maurice. Five years old, four years a
refugee. When he was a year old, his father went to war and the rest
of the family became exiles. He now lives in a corrugated iron hut on
the site of their former home at Equancourt, France, between Peronne
and Cambrai. Two hundred of the seven hundred people of the village
were back and all were living in improvised shelters."
