Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: This family sleeps, eats, and makes stogies in one room on Poplar Alley.

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 3.2002.515
People: Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
Title: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: This family sleeps, eats, and makes stogies in one room on Poplar Alley.
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/159065

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gelatin silver print mounted to board, white gouache
Technique: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 36.6 x 43.6 cm (14 7/16 x 17 3/16 in.)

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: 3.2002.515
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 187
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. 18 (detail); p. 22, fig. 3
Gu Zheng, "Documentary and Representative: Harvard Art Museums' Photography Collections (Part Two)", Chinese Photography (Beijing, China, 2018), 468, pp. 128-135, p. 131, detail ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Classified Documents: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/20/2007 - 06/10/2007
A History of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016

Subjects and Contexts

The Social Museum Collection

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3.2002.515: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: This family sleeps, eats, and makes stogies in one room on Poplar Alley.