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Untitled (children, assignment on Lower East Side) by Jessie Tarbox Beals — VisualArtsDB

Untitled (children, assignment on Lower East Side)

Untitled (children, assignment on Lower East Side)

Jessie Tarbox Beals

1895–1905

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: image: 13.5 x 24.2 cm (5 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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American

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Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: The health and safety of the inhabitants of a municipality may be menaced by laxness of neighboring communities. The photograph at the left shows a group of highly combustible wooden buildings just outside the boundaries of Newark. A conflagration starting in these buildings would probably spread into Newark.

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: The health and safety of the inhabitants of a municipality may be menaced by laxness of neighboring communities. The photograph at the left shows a group of highly combustible wooden buildings just outside the boundaries of Newark. A conflagration starting in these buildings would probably spread into Newark.

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1898

Pageant of the Civic Players of Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Pageant of the Civic Players of Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1918

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: Houses in Vailsburg illustrating well paved streets, ample provision of trees by the municipality and front gardens. The houses are built on lots 35' wide making it possible to construct rooms two abreast and still leave ample space between houses for light and safety.

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: Houses in Vailsburg illustrating well paved streets, ample provision of trees by the municipality and front gardens. The houses are built on lots 35' wide making it possible to construct rooms two abreast and still leave ample space between houses for light and safety.

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1898

Untitled (President William Howard Taft, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis?)

Untitled (President William Howard Taft, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis?)

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1899

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Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1904

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1895

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: IV. Unsanitary dwellings located in the same building with stables. (Source: James Ford, Housing Report to City Plan Commission of Newark, N.J., 1913)

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: IV. Unsanitary dwellings located in the same building with stables. (Source: James Ford, Housing Report to City Plan Commission of Newark, N.J., 1913)

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1895

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: The health and safety of the inhabitants of a municipality may be menaced by laxness of neighboring communities. The photograph at the right shows an open sewer and dump at the city line menacing the health of the inhabitants of two municipalities.

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: The health and safety of the inhabitants of a municipality may be menaced by laxness of neighboring communities. The photograph at the right shows an open sewer and dump at the city line menacing the health of the inhabitants of two municipalities.

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1898

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: VI. A room which receives its sole light from a single window on a covered piazza. Three successive families living in this room have suffered from tuberculosis. (Source: James Ford: Housing Report to City Plan Commission of Newark, N.J., 1913)

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: VI. A room which receives its sole light from a single window on a covered piazza. Three successive families living in this room have suffered from tuberculosis. (Source: James Ford: Housing Report to City Plan Commission of Newark, N.J., 1913)

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1895

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: Shacks erected on unbuilt streets near the city line. Land between houses is being filled with waste paper and garbage.

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: Shacks erected on unbuilt streets near the city line. Land between houses is being filled with waste paper and garbage.

Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1898

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: II. Flash light photograph of dark room in building shown in I showing bad state of repair permitted by landlord and poor maintenance on the part of the tenant.

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: II. Flash light photograph of dark room in building shown in I showing bad state of repair permitted by landlord and poor maintenance on the part of the tenant.

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Pharoah Character from the Minneapolis Civic Player's Pageant Swords and Plowshares, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1919