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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.2995
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Crime, Prisons: United States. New Hampshire. Portsmouth. Rockingham County Jail; Concord. Merrimac County Jail; Exeter. Rockingham County Jail; Dover. Strafford County Jail: New Hampshire State Charitable and Correctional Institutions.
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Hampshire
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/152422

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver prints and printed and typewritten labels mounted to board
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
mount: 72 x 57 cm (28 3/8 x 22 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
New Hampshire State Board of Charities and Correction; acquired for the Social Museum, Harvard University by David C. Rogers through correspondence with Lilian C. Streeter, September 1905 [1].

1. See correspondence between D.C. Rogers and Lilian Streeter, 17 August 1904 to 25 September 1905, Harvard University Archives.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
3.2002.2995
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamuniere, Instituting Reform, The Social Museum of Harvard University 1903-1931, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2012), p. 133, fig. 3.29

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

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