Steel Workers House, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1941
Artist, American, 1914 - 2009

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.4 × 19.4 cm (8 1/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2023.117.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
PM Newspaper, New York; Culver Pictures; Jay Perino; (Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA), 2010; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, stamped in black ink along right: Pix Slug...[by unknown hand in black crayon: View].... Page Slug....[by unknown hand in black crayon: Labor]...../ Page......... Day....[by unknown hand in black crayon: Tuesday].... / Width.........Depth.........; in unknown hand, center, in green ink: Penn Bethlehem; stamped in black ink: PM PHOTOGRAPH BY / MARY MORRIS; stamped in red ink, bottom right: DAILY / FEB 11 1941; caption from newspaper glued to center: View from a steel workers' home: old, desolate houses / border the plant. To their residents, Bethlehem Steel / is never out of sight.