Coal miner's home
date: label: Date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: Evans, Walker
notes: label: Description
content: Silver gelatin print by Walker Evans showing interior of a miner's house, near Morganstown, West Virginia (1936). Photograph includes wooden table on right of image, with some jars/ containers, a cloth cover and a mirror hung above. A wooden cupboard on left has different objects on top including an image cutout/ ornament of a cow. Variety of cardboard hoardings and advertisements (including image of a mother and child, a woman, and Santa Claus), are pasted to wall of room behind furniture. Photograph taken while Evans was employed by FSA (Collection photograph is a cropped version of Library of Congress call number: LC-USF 342-000894A). Mount is signed Walker Evans' in pencil beneath the lower right hand corner of the image. Reverse of mount carries the stamp mark Walker Evans, with location and date added below in pencil. 'Scott's Run coal miner's home' have also been added in pencil.
label: Description
content: See Publication Authority.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: West Virginia, Morgantown
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.143.05
label: accession number
content: 288844
label: catalog number
content: 69.143.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gelatin silver print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.6 cm x 37.9 cm; 17 15/16 in x 14 15/16 in