3.2002.511: Industrial Problems, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: These four strippers work in a damp, unventilated cellar.
PhotographsThe black and white photograph shows four people stripping tobacco leaves in a basement room. Three women are seated on the right, another figure is seated in the lower left corner. There are two small windows high in the back wall. A pipe runs from the right side to just above the group of three women. On the left are hanging garments. The walls are plaster or cement, the floor is boards. The caption reads: These four strippers work in a damp, unventilated cellar.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2002.511
- People
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Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
- Title
- Industrial Problems, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: These four strippers work in a damp, unventilated cellar.
- 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/159027
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print mounted to board, white gouache
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 36.3 x 43.3 cm (14 5/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, in black crayon: 8-2
- inscription: verso, in graphite: 190
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
- 3.2002.511
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamuniere, Instituting Reform, The Social Museum of Harvard University 1903-1931, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2012), p. 182, fig. 4.23
Exhibition History
- Classified Documents: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/20/2007 - 06/10/2007
- 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2017 - 04/05/2018
Subjects and Contexts
- The Social Museum Collection
Verification Level
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