3.2002.1961: Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. Mineville: Industrial Housing, Lodging House of Concrete Block: Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Mineville, New York: Boarding house to accomdate 50 men and two families to keep the houses. Cost $4000. No heat or plumbing. Rent $2500 for whole house. In house shown steam heat and plumbing, laundry and washroom were installed at cost of $1000 additional. (Houses Nos. 277 and 279)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

3.2002.1961

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. Mineville: Industrial Housing, Lodging House of Concrete Block: Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Mineville, New York: Boarding house to accomdate 50 men and two families to keep the houses. Cost $4000. No heat or plumbing. Rent $2500 for whole house. In house shown steam heat and plumbing, laundry and washroom were installed at cost of $1000 additional. (Houses Nos. 277 and 279)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection

Classification

Archival Material

Work Type

display board

Date

c. 1903

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, Mineville

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/153553

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print; cyanotype

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

? Witherbee, Lherman & Co.; through correspondence to the Social Museum, Harvard University, 1915

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

3.2002.1961

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• The Social Museum Collection

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• 3.2002.1961.1

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  Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. Mineville: Industrial Housing, Lodging House of Concrete Block: Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Mineville, New York: Boarding house to accomdate 50 men and two families to keep the houses. Cost $4000. No heat or plumbing. Rent $2500 for whole house. In house shown steam heat and plumbing, laundry and washroom were installed at cost of $1000 additional. (Houses Nos. 277 and 279)

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• 3.2002.1961.2

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  Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. Mineville: Industrial Housing, Lodging House of Concrete Block: Witherbee, Sherman & Company, Mineville, New York: Boarding house to accomdate 50 men and two families to keep the houses. Cost $4000. No heat or plumbing. Rent $2500 for whole house. In house shown steam heat and plumbing, laundry and washroom were installed at cost of $1000 additional. (Houses Nos. 277 and 279)

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