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(Downtown Street Scene: Blind Man on Wood Street)
1950
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Title
(Downtown Street Scene: Blind Man on Wood Street)
Creator
Erwitt, Elliott
Date
1950
Identifier
86.16.42
Source Identifier
Carnegie Museum of Art 86.16.42
Description
Blind beggar holds his cane and tin cup, while a woman looks at jewelry through the window at John M. Roberts & Son store on Wood Street in downtown Pittsburgh. Note the sign around his neck indicating that he was blinded in a mining accident.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
John M. Roberts &
Son Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Blind--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Store windows--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Urban life--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, 1894-1958
Contributor
Carnegie Museum of Art
Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs
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