Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. Long Island: Methods of Cheap Construction of Dwellings. Sectional Houses of Concrete: The Sage Foundation Homes Company: Experiment in cheap construction of concrete houses undertaken in 1910 by Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury, architect, under an appropriation of the Russell Sage Foundation. This experiment has not yet been made a commercial success. For details of construction see "Studies in Economic Construction" published in "Cement Age" of December, 1910, pp. 315-325.

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 3.2002.1960
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Housing, Industrial: United States. New York. Long Island: Methods of Cheap Construction of Dwellings. Sectional Houses of Concrete: The Sage Foundation Homes Company: Experiment in cheap construction of concrete houses undertaken in 1910 by Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury, architect, under an appropriation of the Russell Sage Foundation. This experiment has not yet been made a commercial success. For details of construction see "Studies in Economic Construction" published in "Cement Age" of December, 1910, pp. 315-325.
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, Long Island
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/153568

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gelatin silver print and printed label mounted to board
Technique: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 20.8 x 27.6 cm (8 3/16 x 10 7/8 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: 3.2002.1960
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. 176, fig. 4.18

Subjects and Contexts

The Social Museum Collection

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