["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.]

["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

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

["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.]

1937
Gelatin silver print
34.1 x 26.7 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1978.0731.0026
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil) "130" "...at Scotts Run" "Hine - 1937."
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