[Engineer with Train]

[Engineer with Train]

Digitized film strip
Negative

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

[Engineer with Train]

Getting her ready for the run; It has been forty years since enginemen had to report hours early to clean and polish their locomotive, but they still take a half-hour to groom the "old girl." Lewis Isaac oils her running gear...


1938-1939
negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film
Overall: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1985.0282.0003

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