"Joe", 54 years of age. Unemployed miner in Jere, Scott's Run, W.Va. A typical foreign born Italian miner too old to work in mechanized mines. A widower with nine children.
Photograph
"Joe", 54 years of age. Unemployed miner in Jere, Scott's Run, W.Va. A typical foreign born Italian miner too old to work in mechanized mines. A widower with nine children.
ca. 1937
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 19.2 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0731.0021
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."
(applied typed label) "130 'Joe', 54 years of age. Unemployed miner of
Jere, Scott's Run, W.Va. A typical foreign born Italian miner too old
to work in mechanized mines. A widower with nine children."
(in pencil) "130"
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."
(applied typed label) "130 'Joe', 54 years of age. Unemployed miner of
Jere, Scott's Run, W.Va. A typical foreign born Italian miner too old
to work in mechanized mines. A widower with nine children."
(in pencil) "130"
