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Family of Louis Rizzo, New York City

Family of Louis Rizzo, New York City
 1911

Medium
gelatin silver photograph (printing-out paper)
Measurements
12.1 × 17.1 cm (image) 12.7 × 17.7 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
New York, New York, United States
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: 2688
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse c.l.: 2688
inscribed (inverted) in pencil on reverse l.r.: 2688
photocopy on accompanying paper label: 2688. New York City. Dec 1911. (Dec underlined twice) / Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who / works some. The wife and four children / (none could speak English at all) work / on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. / Been in U.S. five months. Do not go / to school yet. Through an interpreter / they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo / 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed / to me too high. They were woking in a / very dim light.
Accession Number
PH10-1978
Department
International Photography
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1978
Public domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney
Gallery location
Not on display