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This photograph shows a young boy in overalls and standing before a wooden house missing his right arm.
Lewis W. Hine (American (North American))
Luther - 16 yrs. old. Right arm was cut off by a running saw in a box factory. Now attending school.
1908 – 1910
Museum Purchase
1971/2.143
This mixed media assemblage has a series of see-through panels hanging from a wooden frame with a lightbox at the back. On the hanging panels, there are photographs printed, with a variety of images of buildings, sculpture, and advertising.
Robert Rauschenberg;Gemini G.E.L. (American (North American);American (North American))
Sling-Shots Lit #6
1984
2015/2.41
A black and white photograph of a warehouse in Brooklyn. A sign painted on the building advertises coffee, while a man sits outside reading a newspaper.
Berenice Abbott (American (North American))
Warehouse, Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn
1935 – 1939
Gift of Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider
2011/2.4
Figrues stand or sit in a narrow passgeway that leads back in space to a dark entrance, beyond which a brightly lit arched entry is visible. The flanking buildings that form the passageway are not described; the focus is on the scattering of figures and the entryway in the distance.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (North American))
Fleur de Lys Passage
1887
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.396
Multiple color screenprint of an abstracted industrial landscape. In the foreground is a small strip of land, and in the middle ground are buildings of various geometric shapes and sizes. In the background, the rooflines of the buildings start to blend in and emerge from the cloudy sky.
Charles Sheeler
Architectural Cadences
1954
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.216
This is a collage of black and white photographs showing parts of automobiles including mirror images of some of them, making the near symmetry a bit syncopated. There are repeated photos of two different couples, one of a man and a woman, the other of two men, photos of textiles and a photo of woman wearing similar textile, and a large hat in the bottom left corner. 
George Vargas
Temple of Autos
1984
Gift of the artist
2004/1.155
A photograph of an oblique view of a plaster mill in Los Angeles, California. 
Edward Weston (American (North American))
Plaster Works, Los Angeles
1925
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
2000/2.145
Within a dark interior, a man in a hat and wearing an apron stands at the left side of the image, facing a furnace. He holds the long handle of a tool into the furnace, holding his left hand on his hip. Behind him, to the right, are two youthful assistants wearing dark broad-brimmed hats, one leaning on an anvil. Further to the right are a seated woman and small child and at the far right is a man in a hat going down a flight of stairs. A second woman is visible in the background between the smith and the furnace, she is looking at the smith with hands raised. The interior shows evidence of the smith's work with tools hanging on the wall and a shovel next to one of the assistants.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (North American))
The Forge, One of the 'Sixteen Etchings,' or the 'Thames Set'
1861
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.347
A black poster with a heading for 'Richard Sapper Design'. White shapes, appearing to be light fixtures and other mechanics, occupying the middle. Text in German appears below.
Paul Rand (American (North American))
Richard Sapper
1990
Gift of Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo and Maria Phillips
2016/2.215
This is a scene of a city with a road receding into the distance in the center and multi-level buildings and utility poles on either side of it. Dark colors are used throughout the painting.
Zoltan L. Sepeshy (American (North American))
Entrance to Scranton
1930 – 1940
Gift of Mr. Jean Paul Slusser
1975/1.76
A man in worker's blues and hat looks off toward the right-hand side of the photograph as he holds a cigarette in his right hand.
Dmitri Baltermants (Russian (culture or style))
Award-winning Gas Worker, Magnitogorsky Metallurgy Plant
1939 – 1990
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2016/2.427
A photograph of a man sitting at the opening of a large pipe. He welds along the pipe's rim.
Dmitri Baltermants (Russian (culture or style))
Pipe Welder
1939 – 1990
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2016/2.429
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