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Photo, Print, Drawing The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz.

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About this Item

Title

  • The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz.

Summary

  • This photo has often been reproduced to represent the experience of immigrants traveling to the United States. In fact, Stieglitz took the photo while traveling to Europe as a first class passenger on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II in June 1907. The ship was going from New York City to Bremen, Germany, and the people in the steerage deck scene could be skilled craftsmen and their families heading home after working on temporary visas. Stieglitz first published the photo in 1911 in Camera Work, while he was moving away from pictorialism and into more abstract art photography. In 1942, Stieglitz wrote: "I saw a picture of shapes and underlying that the feeling I had about life." (Source: Wikipedia, 2015)

Names

  • Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946, photographer

Created / Published

  • 1907.

Headings

  • -  Immigrants--1900-1910
  • -  Ships--1900-1910
  • -  Passengers--1900-1910

Headings

  • Photogravures--1900-1910.

Genre

  • Photogravures--1900-1910

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Signed in pencil, "The Steerage, 1907, Alfred Stieglitz."
  • -  Stamped: "Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at An American Place."
  • -  A contact sheet version of this image is in LOT 3598.
  • -  Gift; Georgia O'Keeffe; 1949.
  • -  Forms part of: Alfred Stieglitz Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

Medium

  • 1 photomechanical print : photogravure ; 32.0 x 26.1 cm (12 5/6 x 10 1/8 in.), mounted on board 52.6 x 40.1 cm (20 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PH - Stieglitz (A.), no. 12 (B size) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

  • cph 3g04635 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04635
  • cph 3b46774 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b46774
  • ds 00202 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00202

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 89715190

Reproduction Number

  • LC-USZC4-4635 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-98217 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-DIG-ds-00202 (digital file from original print) LC-USZCN4-243 (color film copy neg.)

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-4635 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-98217 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-DIG-ds-00202 (digital file from original print) LC-USZCN4-243 (color film copy neg.)
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Chicago citation style:

Stieglitz, Alfred, photographer. The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. , 1907. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/89715190/.

APA citation style:

Stieglitz, A., photographer. (1907) The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. , 1907. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/89715190/.

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Stieglitz, Alfred, photographer. The steerage / Alfred Stieglitz. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/89715190/>.