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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.558
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Defectives, Insane: United States. Massachusetts. Medfield. Insane Hospital: Medfield Insane Asylum
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
display board
Date
c. 1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Medfield
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158254

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver prints mounted to board, black ink
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
mount: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)

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
3.2002.558
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. 138, fig. 3.34

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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