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A black and white photograph of eight people in room, mounted on board with white lettering.

The black and white photograph shows four people seated, three with their backs to the view, around a table, one person sits facing the viewer looking right, hands crossed resting on their knee. Three people are spaced across the back wall of the room. There are stacks of containers along the wall. There is one window in the center right, a barrel and piles of material are in the lower right corner. The ceiling has a large crack and is crossed with pipes in the center. The caption reads: Four hundred women are working in sweat shops like this.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.536
People
Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
Title
Industrial Problems, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: 400 Women are working in sweat shops like this.
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1907-1908
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/157778

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 36.5 x 43.5 cm (14 3/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
mount: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, in black crayon: 8-4

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
3.2002.536
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2017 - 04/05/2018

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

Verification Level

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