The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount
  • A photogravure reproduction of this work in Camera Work
  • A later, gelatin silver print of this work
  • Exhibition view showing a print of the work alongside works by Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Georgia O’Keeffe in Beginnings and Landmarks at An American Place (1937)

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

The Steerage, 1907, printed 1915

Photogravure; 31.9 x 25.8 cm (image); 39.7 x 28 cm (paper); 42.7 x 30.7 cm (mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.847

 

An later print of this image also exists in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949.705).

Additional resources related to this object are to the right.

 

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