Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh: steel & smoke print: Hoppé print

Collection

Identifier: 2011-522

Staff Only

Scope and content

This is am image of Pittsburgh, PA at the height of its fame as the Steel City of the United States. Item depicts tall smokestacks belch smoke into an overcast sky and the roofs of the factory buildings look like the frozen waves of some black ocean.

Dates

Creation: 1927

Creator

Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto), 1878-1972 (creator., Person)

Language of Materials

Text in English, German, French, and Spanish.

Biographical sketch

E.O. Hoppe was born in 1878 and died in 1972. Renowned as a portrait photographer, he enjoyed travel and in the 1920s he visited the United States where he produced a series of urban images strongly influenced by the then prevalent modernist aesthetic.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 sheet)

Additional Description

General Note

Item is a original black and white photograuvre print taken from an original photograph by E. O. Hoppe in 1927. It measures 8.5 x 6 on a piece of 10 x 8 paper.