3.2002.518: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Typhoid Fever Was Epidemic in Pittsburgh for more than 35 years. In the 25 years prior to Jan. 1, 1908, there were 54857 cases reported to the Bureau of Health. 8149 of these persons died as a result of their sickness.
Archival Material
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2002.518
- 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: Typhoid Fever Was Epidemic in Pittsburgh for more than 35 years. In the 25 years prior to Jan. 1, 1908, there were 54857 cases reported to the Bureau of Health. 8149 of these persons died as a result of their sickness.
- 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/158746
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White ink on brown paper
- Dimensions
- mount: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, center left, in black crayon: 7-1
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
- 3.2002.518
- 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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