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Preview image of work. gelatin silver print,  House of Robert Dudley, Miner, Ethel, W. V. 11104

1993.42

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House of Robert Dudley, Miner, Ethel, W. V.

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Artist

Berenice Abbott, H 1982 (Springfield, Ohio, 1898 - 1991, Monson, Maine)

Title

House of Robert Dudley, Miner, Ethel, W. V.

Creation Date

1935

Century

20th century

Dimensions

6 5/8 in. x 9 in. (16.8 cm. x 22.8 cm.)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Helen Johnson Chase Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

1993.42

In the summer of 1935 Berenice Abbott and her partner Elizabeth McCausland, an esteemed writer and art critic, left their home in New York City for a months-long trip that took them as far south as Mississippi and as far west as Illinois. In an old Ford, they traveled collecting material for a book project about the nation during a time of economic uncertainty. With a special interest in the lives of rural Americans, Abbott took photographs in West Virginia that highlighted the region’s mining and agricultural economy, including this view of an African American miner’s home and two of its inhabitants. Abbott never realized this book, since later that fall she returned to her exploration of New York City under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration. Changing New York, published in 1939, became a landmark photographic survey of the metropolis.