Housing, Conditions: United States. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Survey: Typhoid Fever Was Epidemic in Pittsburgh for more than 35 years. In the 25 years prior to Jan. 1, 1908, there were 54857 cases reported to the Bureau of Health. 8149 of these persons died as a result of their sickness.
Lewis Wickes Hine
1907-1908
White ink on brown paper
Fogg Museum
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection