(Downtown Street Scene: Blind Man on Wood Street)

1950

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(Downtown Street Scene: Blind Man on Wood Street)
  • 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
  • Rights Information
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