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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.2461
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Charity, Children: United States. New Hampshire. Dover. Children's Home; Nashua. King's Daughters' Nursery and Home for Children; Nashua. Protestant Orphanage; Portsmouth. Chase Home for Children: New Hampshire State Charitable and Correctional Institutions.
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
display board
Date
c. 1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Hampshire
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/152743

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatine silver prints; black typewriter ink
Dimensions
mount: 72.2 x 57.1 cm (28 7/16 x 22 1/2 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
3.2002.2461
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Classified Documents: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/20/2007 - 06/10/2007

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

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