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Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932. – Antique Print

Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932., 1932 — antique lithograph
Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932., 1932. Antique lithograph from the Work & Industry collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This antique lithograph of Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Koppers coke / Victoria Hutson, 1932.

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Hutson's lithograph *Koppers Coke* shows the coke industry, a process in which coal is baked in ovens until it becomes the hard, porous fuel that heated the blast furnaces of American steel mills. The print is dated 1932, the early Depression years, when many American artists turned to industrial labor and plant scenes as subjects. Its title names the Koppers company, whose by-product coke ovens were a notable part of the industrial landscape of that period. The print is signed and dated in pencil by the artist, and the Library of Congress holds it in its collection of American prints from the 1930s.

Created / published1932
Medium1 print : lithograph ; 24.4 x 34 cm. (image), 34.9 x 44.3 cm. (sheet)
GenreLithographs 1930-1940.
NotesNo. 1 signed Victoria Hutson and dated in pencil. DLC Unprocessed item signed, titled, and dated in pencil. DLC Printed by George C. Miller. Copyright by Estate of Victoria Huntley. Unprocessed item part of Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). DLC Some title and other information from Beall. Purchase; Pennell fund. no. 1. Gift; Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation. unprocessed item. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 225. Unprocessed item exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed item in PR 13 CN 1995:010.1491
SubjectsCoke industry--1930-1940. Industrial facilities--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,681 × 3,861 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220136

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