3.2002.526: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Homestead Has no Ordinance against Overcrowding. In 21 Courts the Pittsburgh Survey found 1308 Persons living in 505 Rooms. Out of 239 families 51 lived in one room tenements. 157 lived in tenements with an average of three or more persons to a room.
Archival Material
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2002.526
- 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 against Overcrowding. In 21 Courts the Pittsburgh Survey found 1308 Persons living in 505 Rooms. Out of 239 families 51 lived in one room tenements. 157 lived in tenements with an average of three or more persons to a room.
- 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/158747
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White ink on brown paper
- Dimensions
- mount: 53 x 71 cm (20 7/8 x 27 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, black crayon: 3-3
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
- 3.2002.526
- 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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