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Miscellaneous. 88 prints unmounted, a mixed bag of pictures some family historical, several shots of Hine as a boy. I found only 2 of interest

Miscellaneous clippings, copies of magazines, his work was reproduced in and 2 letters by him.

So out of the approx. 443 prints 400 are Hine's and out of these I found half (218) to be of interest.

It is a shame his work is scattered, I believe he was a great photographer. I hope I get the chance to study the Eastman House collection, why they haven't published a book on him I can't understand.

Also I came across a strange collection of photographs, they are of no artistic interest taken only for documentation reasons. A man named P.L. Spear went around with a simple camera - image size about 5 3/4 x 3 3/4"

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and took pictures of streets and the houses along streets. I asked if they had any material on Myrtle avenue and they brought out a folder with 64 snapshots of the street mainly near the site of the fort green housing project, some downtown. taken mostly by this man. I also looked at folders on Washington and Clinton avenues. It is amazing that this man had the intelligence to foresee that it was important to make a record of how things were, most of the buildings are since torn down and probably no other record of them exists. I wish more people would simply document instead of trying to be artists, but most people have no idea what they're doing. It is not easy to be unpretentious, simple, direct. honest and yet intelligent.

Hine pictures

Checked the Museum of Modern Art's collection of photographs after public library. - they were very little, only prints left over from shows in which a few of his pictures have appeared.

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