Lancaster Shoe Company's Factory, Keene, N.H.

1910

Not on view

From Birmingham to Wilkes-Barre and beyond, souvenir postcards celebrated new construction and natural bounty. Tunnel and factory scenes were local touchstones in the early twentieth century, exchanged in much the same way as seaside pictures or mountain views. This and many other examples hail from the archive of photographer Walker Evans, who avidly collected all manner of photolithographic cards. The industrial scenes he favored deploy a frontal style and a frank economy of means. Like his own photographs, they record a vernacular American idiom with unvarnished regard.

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Exhibition History

Title: Lancaster Shoe Company's Factory, Keene, N.H.
Date: 1910
Medium: Photomechanical print
Dimensions: approx. 9 x 14 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. )
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Walker Evans Archive, 1994
Object Number: 1994.264.108.175
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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