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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.528
People
Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
Title
Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Accumulation. In Back Yards.
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/158296

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 30 x 43.2 cm (11 13/16 x 17 in.)
mount: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, in black crayon: 14-22

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
3.2002.528
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chris Balaschak, The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography, Routledge (New York, 2021), p. 12, fig. 1.3, ill. (b/w)

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

Verification Level

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