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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.283
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Recreation, Parks and Playgrounds: United States. Missouri. St. Louis: Specimens of Playground Work
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
display board
Date
c. 1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Missouri, St. Louis
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/159478

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wickerwork; beadwork with metal, glass, and ceramic beads; color lithograph on wove paper with applied strips, cut out and mounted to red and gold painted card with black ribbon; raffia over card support.
Dimensions
mount: 70.5 x 55.5 cm (27 3/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): Stamped Harvard University Department of Social Ethics Sep 28, 1905

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
3.2002.283
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. 172, fig. 4.13

Exhibition History

  • A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from The Carpenter Center Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/06/2005 - 10/30/2005

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

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