Inspecting Furnace and Stove, Newport News Homesteads, Virginia
Artist
Arthur Rothstein
(American, 1915-1985)
CultureAmerican
Date1937, printed ca. 1984
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.1 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.28
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.Label TextArthur Rothstein American, 1915–1985 Inspecting Furnace and Stove, Newport News Homesteads, Virginia, December 1937 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1984 Each home provided steam heat, indoor plumbing, fresh water, and oak furniture. The appliances were likely upgrades for the new tenants, but the stove and furnace still used coal for fuel. Although Aberdeen Gardens was to become a model for other federal resettlement communities, the government tended to focus on high-rise apartments by the 1960s. Chrysler Museum purchase 84.78.28 ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. "Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 46.
