3.2002.524: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Homestead. Has no Ordinance prohibiting privy vaults; No Ordinance requiring an adequate Water Supply. In 21 courts the Pittsburgh Survey found 26 Privy Vaults with 144 Compartments the Sole toilet accommodations for 1308 people. Only 3 tenements with running water in them. An average of 50 people to each yard hydrant or pump.
Archival Material
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2002.524
- People
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Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
- Title
- Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Homestead. Has no Ordinance prohibiting privy vaults; No Ordinance requiring an adequate Water Supply. In 21 courts the Pittsburgh Survey found 26 Privy Vaults with 144 Compartments the Sole toilet accommodations for 1308 people. Only 3 tenements with running water in them. An average of 50 people to each yard hydrant or pump.
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
- Classification
- Archival Material
- Work Type
- poster
- Date
- 1907-1908
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/158294
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White ink on brown paper
- Dimensions
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image: 36 x 43.2 cm (14 3/16 x 17 in.)
mount: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, left bottom corner, black crayon: 13-11
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
- 3.2002.524
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Subjects and Contexts
- The Social Museum Collection
Verification Level
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