Housing, Improved: United States. New York. New York City. "City and Suburban Homes Co.": City and Suburban Homes Co., New York City: City and Suburban Homes Company, Office 15 West 38th street, New York. Kitchen of two room apartment in model tenement buildings, Avenue A. Estate, Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth streets, and Avenue A. Office 511 East Seventy-eighth street. All modern improvements - steamheat, hot and cold water, gas range, stationary washtubs, &c. Monthly rental $11.00.

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 3.2002.257
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Housing, Improved: United States. New York. New York City. "City and Suburban Homes Co.": City and Suburban Homes Co., New York City: City and Suburban Homes Company, Office 15 West 38th street, New York. Kitchen of two room apartment in model tenement buildings, Avenue A. Estate, Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth streets, and Avenue A. Office 511 East Seventy-eighth street. All modern improvements - steamheat, hot and cold water, gas range, stationary washtubs, &c. Monthly rental $11.00.
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: display board
Date: c. 1911
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York City
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/159444

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 19.2 x 24.5 cm (7 9/16 x 9 5/8 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: 3.2002.257
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 102, fig. 8

Subjects and Contexts

The Social Museum Collection

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