[About 40 years ago, at 19 years of age, he started out to learn wood- carving. Now he makes a master-model for parts of furniture. This goes to another man who, on a multiple-carver turns out 18 copies at a me.]

[About 40 years ago, at 19 years of age, he started out to learn wood- carving. Now he makes a master-model for parts of furniture. This goes to another man who, on a multiple-carver turns out 18 copies at a me.]

Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

[About 40 years ago, at 19 years of age, he started out to learn wood- carving. Now he makes a master-model for parts of furniture. This goes to another man who, on a multiple-carver turns out 18 copies at a me.]

ca. 1937
Gelatin silver print
11.8 x 16.9 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0730.0021
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Property of National Research Project of the
W.P.A. Room 917 - 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Not To Be
Reproduced Before Jan. 1938." "Photo-study by Lewis W. Hine for
National Research Project of WPA 12 S. 12th St. Philadelphia, Pa."
(in pencil) "221"
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