The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Man Pulling a Steel Ingot

Man Pulling a Steel Ingot

late 1920s
(American, 1904–1971)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 24.6 x 17.3 cm (9 11/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 25.7 x 20.2 cm (10 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb 2021.211
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

As a woman, Margaret Bourke-White had to fight to be allowed to photograph inside Cleveland’s steel mills.

Description

Capturing the glowing metal inside the dark steel mills posed considerable technical challenges which Bourke-White, with the help of generous colleagues, eventually overcame. It was those photographs of the steel industry that brought her national prominence. Here a single worker, set against a bank of machinery, demonstrates that manual labor was still an important part of the steel-making process in the 1920s.
  • ?-2021
    William S. and Margaret Lipscomb, Shaker Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 6, 2021
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.211