3.2002.516: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Accumulation In Vacant Lots.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

3.2002.516

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 Vacant Lots.

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/158745

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print mounted onto wooden display board

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 36.3 x 43.6 cm (14 5/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
mount: 56 x 71.5 cm (22 1/16 x 28 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, in black crayon: 14-23

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

3.2002.516

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Chris Balaschak, The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography, Routledge (New York, 2021), p. 13, fig. 1.4, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

• A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from The Carpenter Center Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/06/2005 - 10/30/2005

Subjects and Contexts

• The Social Museum Collection

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