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A black and white photograph of people working in large room mounted on board with white lettering.

The black and white photograph shows a row of people sitting facing a brick wall with large, closed windows. The ceiling is beamed. There is a vertical rack with rows of tobacco leaves on the right side. In front of the rack are several crates and several barrels. The caption reads: Tobacco drying in the work room poisons the air.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.521
People
Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
Title
Industrial Problems, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Tobacco drying in the work room poisons in the air.
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/158246

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted to board, white gouache
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 36.3 x 43.5 cm (14 5/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
mount: 56 x 71.5 cm (22 1/16 x 28 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, in black crayon: 8-8

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
3.2002.521
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. 183, fig. 4.24

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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