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Dirt road leading past workers' housing toward large steel mill blast furnaces and smokestacks.

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Birmingham Steel Mill and Workers' Houses

Walker Evans

1936, printed 1971

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 7/16 × 9 5/16 in. (18.9 × 23.7 cm) Image: 7 7/16 × 9 5/16 in. (18.9 × 23.7 cm) Mount (board): 17 15/16 × 14 13/16 in. (45.6 × 37.6 cm)
Accession number
2023.176
Acquired
2023
Credit line
Gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Norman Ives
Edition
59/100
Department
collection

About this work

Walker Evans, Birmingham Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, 1936, printed 1971. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 7 7/16 × 9 5/16 in. (18.9 × 23.7 cm) Image: 7 7/16 × 9 5/16 in. (18.9 × 23.7 cm) Mount (board): 17 15/16 × 14 13/16 in. (45.6 × 37.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Norman Ives 2023.176

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