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White paint on a black board which gives details of a female cigar factory worker’s schedule for four weeks.

The board is divided into four columns by week with a title and heading and reads: Women do irregular work. Schedule of an unusually fast wrapper stripper for four weeks. Week August 30, 1907, Monday, 33 pounds, Tuesday 35 pounds, Wednesday 0 pounds; Thursday 3 pounds, Friday 1 pound; Saturday, 12 pounds. Week September 11, 1907, Monday 32 pounds, Tuesday 25 pounds, Wednesday, 0 pounds, Thursday, 27 pounds, Friday 33 pounds, Saturday 0 pounds. Week September 17, 1907, Monday 19 pounds, Tuesday 20 pounds, Wednesday, 31 pounds, Thursday 34 pounds, Friday 0 pounds, Saturday 0 pounds. Week September 27, 1907, Monday 6 pounds, Tuesday 29 pounds, Wednesday 13 pounds, Thursday 0 pounds, Friday 23 pounds, Saturday 23 pounds. On days that are blank, she was sent home because of no work, and several times she had poor stock. Her average is 18 pounds a day at five cents a pound, ninety cents a day.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2002.329
People
? Lewis Wickes Hine, American (Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1874 - 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
Title
Industrial Problems, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Women do Irregular Work, Schedule of an unusually fast wrapper stripper for four weeks.
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
report
Date
1907-1908
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/159258

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White gouache on board
Dimensions
mount: 56 x 71 cm (22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, black crayon: 8-6

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
3.2002.329
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. 180, fig. 4.21

Exhibition History

  • Classified Documents: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/20/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2017 - 04/05/2018

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Social Museum Collection

Verification Level

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