3.2002.320: Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Overcrowding: When a family lives in one room.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

3.2002.320

People

Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)

Title

Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Overcrowding: When a family lives in one room.

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/159286

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 31.4 x 44 cm (12 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
mount: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, bottom left, black crayon: 13-1

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

3.2002.320

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Judy Murray and Ray Williams, Engaging New Americans, Preparing for US Citizenship with the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 57
• 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. 150, fig. 2

Subjects and Contexts

• The Social Museum Collection

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