3.2002.2320: Industrial Problems, Welfare Work: United States. Ohio. Middletown. American Rolling Mill Company: Industrial Housing, Detached Dwellings: Frame Construction: The American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio. "Garden City": At left: Blueprint of 6-room cottage for immigrant laborers shown in photograph No. 1533. At right: Blueprint of 4-room semi-detached house shown in photograph No. 1553. The rent for each type of dwelling is $12.50 per month, including free use of bath, water and light.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

3.2002.2320

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Industrial Problems, Welfare Work: United States. Ohio. Middletown. American Rolling Mill Company: Industrial Housing, Detached Dwellings: Frame Construction: The American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio. "Garden City": At left: Blueprint of 6-room cottage for immigrant laborers shown in photograph No. 1533. At right: Blueprint of 4-room semi-detached house shown in photograph No. 1553. The rent for each type of dwelling is $12.50 per month, including free use of bath, water and light.

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

display board

Date

c. 1903

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Middletown

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/153020

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Cyanotype

Dimensions

mount: 35.5 x 56 cm (14 x 22 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Acquired[1] by the Social Museum, Harvard University, by July 1915.

[1] SM Accession Ledger records the material as from or associated with the Middletown, Ohio "Garden City," however it is unclear if that is directly where the work came from.

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

3.2002.2320

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• The Social Museum Collection

Related Works

• 3.2002.2320.2

  Unidentified Artist

  Industrial Problems, Welfare Work: United States. Ohio. Middletown. American Rolling Mill Company: Industrial Housing, Detached Dwellings: Frame Construction: The American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio. "Garden City": At left: Blueprint of 6-room cottage for immigrant laborers shown in photograph No. 1533. At right: Blueprint of 4-room semi-detached house shown in photograph No. 1553. The rent for each type of dwelling is $12.50 per month, including free use of bath, water and light.

  Archival Material
• 3.2002.2320.1

  Unidentified Artist

  Industrial Problems, Welfare Work: United States. Ohio. Middletown. American Rolling Mill Company: Industrial Housing, Detached Dwellings: Frame Construction: The American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown, Ohio. "Garden City": At left: Blueprint of 6-room cottage for immigrant laborers shown in photograph No. 1533. At right: Blueprint of 4-room semi-detached house shown in photograph No. 1553. The rent for each type of dwelling is $12.50 per month, including free use of bath, water and light.

  Archival Material

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