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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.1771.2
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Housing, Improved: Great Britain, England. London. Housing Conditions and Improvements: Social Conditions in London, England, 1903: Battersea - Workmen in Employ of Borough Going to Dinner in Shelters Provided by the borough, Equipped with Kitchens
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1903
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
European?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/17482

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 7.8 x 10.5 cm (3 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
American Institute of Social Service; given by William H. Tolman to Francis Greenwood Peabody for the Social Museum, Harvard University, 1904[1].

[1] List of European Photographs Collected by W. H. Tolman, Memorandum for Professor Peabody, Harvard Archives UAV800.157.

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
3.2002.1771.2
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. 97, fig. 4

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

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Verification Level

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