[Worker with Hopper Car]
ca. 1915
![[Worker with Hopper Car] by Unidentified](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/smith/thumb/worker-with-hopper-car-smith-061296-1.webp)
Medium
Photography-Photoprint
Classification
Photography-Photoprint
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Accession Number
1994.91.224
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the gritty world of early 20th-century American industry with *[Worker with Hopper Car]*, a striking photoprint from around 1915. Captured by an unidentified photographer, this full-length image depicts a lone miner standing beside a loaded hopper car—likely deep in a mine shaft—evoking the raw labor that fueled America's industrial boom. The photoprint medium, a gelatin silver process common at the time, allowed for detailed, high-contrast reproductions that preserved the scene's stark realism, from the worker's sturdy pose to the heavy cart brimming with ore or coal. Created durin...
About the Artist
Unidentified ( ) · –