Human Generated Data

Title

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: V. Spite fence over window as cause of darkness of room.

Date

c. 1903

People

Artist: Jessie Tarbox Beals, American 1870 - 1942

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection, 3.2002.3263.5

Human Generated Data

Title

Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: V. Spite fence over window as cause of darkness of room.

People

Artist: Jessie Tarbox Beals, American 1870 - 1942

Date

c. 1903

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection, 3.2002.3263.5

Machine Generated Data

Tags

Amazon
created on 2019-06-05

Banister 99.6
Handrail 99.6
Building 93.2
Street 93.2
Town 93.2
Urban 93.2
Road 93.2
City 93.2
Corridor 90.9
Home Decor 85.7
Patio 75.2
Brick 72.8
Outdoors 72.7
Alley 71.9
Alleyway 71.9
Path 65.1
Walkway 65.1
Wood 64.5
Crypt 62.4
Staircase 58.9
Porch 58.3
Prison 58
Nature 58
Wall 56.2
Housing 55.4

Clarifai
created on 2019-06-05

no person 99.3
people 98.3
monochrome 95.2
street 94.7
step 94.5
indoors 93.4
one 93.3
abandoned 91.2
room 91.1
two 90.3
home 89.7
house 87.7
architecture 87.1
door 84.2
building 81.6
wall 80
adult 79.3
family 78.5
old 77.4
light 76.3

Imagga
created on 2019-06-05

step 51.4
building 45.4
cell 41
architecture 40.3
support 39.8
device 36.2
prison 35.2
old 26.5
correctional institution 26
stone 21.9
structure 21.2
house 20.9
wall 19.8
penal institution 19.5
travel 19
tourism 19
window 16.5
ancient 16.4
door 16.2
city 15.8
urban 15.7
industrial 15.4
metal 15.3
town 14.8
street 14.7
construction 14.5
history 14.3
balcony 14.3
brick 14.1
stairs 13.5
steel 13.3
institution 13
exterior 12.9
industry 12.8
village 12.5
tourist 11.8
traditional 11.6
medieval 11.5
interior 11.5
concrete 11.5
historic 11
factory 10.6
windows 10.6
plant 10.5
buildings 10.4
modern 9.8
light 9.4
barrier 9.3
wood 9.2
chair 9.1
steps 8.8
glass 8.6
gate 8.5
destination 8.4
power 8.4
home 8
staircase 7.9
antique 7.8
bridge 7.6
outdoors 7.5
water 7.3
dirty 7.2
landmark 7.2
tower 7.2
alley 7.1
passage 7.1
wooden 7
sky 7

Google
created on 2019-06-05

Stairs 74.2
Room 65.7
Building 61.5
Monochrome 60.1
Black-and-white 56.4
House 53.7

Microsoft
created on 2019-06-05

stairs 95.7
house 93.1
outdoor 86.9
window 85.1
building 81.6
white 78.5
black 76.5
old 58.9
step 23.4

Color Analysis

Feature analysis

Amazon

No features identified

Clarifai

Stairs
House
Window
Porch
Door
Furniture

Clarifai

Stairs 84.5%

Clarifai

House 74.9%

Clarifai

House 63.6%

Clarifai

Window 73%

Clarifai

Window 39.2%

Clarifai

Window 35.9%

Clarifai

Window 35.1%

Clarifai

Porch 45.4%

Clarifai

Porch 42.7%

Clarifai

Door 37.9%

Clarifai

Furniture 36.1%

Categories

Imagga
created on 2019-06-05

streetview architecture 96.9%
interior objects 2.7%

Captions

Clarifai

No captions written

Salesforce

Created by general-english-image-caption-blip on 2025-05-18

a photograph of a narrow alleyway with stairs and stairs leading to a building

Created by general-english-image-caption-blip-2 on 2025-07-06

an old black and white photo of a stairway in an alley

OpenAI GPT

Created by gpt-4o-2024-11-20 on 2025-06-13

This black-and-white photograph depicts a narrow, neglected urban alleyway flanked by buildings with contrasting exteriors: one with brick and one with wood siding. The alley is cluttered and untidy, with scattered debris such as paper and other objects littering the ground. At the center, there is a wooden staircase leading to a small second-floor balcony, which appears to serve as an entry to one of the buildings. Two levels of porches and doorways are visible. Clothes or linens hang from a higher area, suggesting it may be someone's drying laundry. A large pipe lies on the ground to the left, and a small barrel or wooden object stands nearby. The photo evokes a sense of cramped living conditions, typical of inner-city or tenement homes during the late 19th or early 20th century. The photographer's signature, "Beals N.Y," is engraved in the bottom right corner.

Created by gpt-4o-2024-08-06 on 2025-06-13

The image depicts a narrow alleyway between two buildings, creating a confined and somewhat cluttered urban space. On the left, there is a brick wall, while on the right, there is a building with wooden siding. The ground is uneven and covered with a combination of dirt and debris.

A staircase leads up to the second story of the building on the right, where there is a small porch or balcony with a railing. Various items, such as a wooden barrel and other miscellaneous objects, are seen scattered throughout the alleyway. The perspective of the photograph draws the eye towards the back of the alley, where laundry is hanging on a line, suggesting this is a residential area.

The photograph, taken by an artist named Beals, captures the gritty and functional urban environment of its time, highlighting the close quarters and everyday life in a densely built area.

Anthropic Claude

Created by anthropic.claude-3-haiku-20240307-v1:0 on 2025-06-17

The image shows a narrow alleyway or passageway between two old, dilapidated buildings. The buildings have wooden siding and stairs leading up to balconies or porches. The alleyway appears to be cluttered with debris and discarded items. The overall scene has a gritty, rundown feel, suggesting an urban, impoverished setting. The image is in black and white, adding to the sense of age and decay.

Created by us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0 on 2025-06-17

This is a black and white photograph showing what appears to be the back alley or courtyard of an urban residential building, likely from the early 20th century. The image shows a narrow passage between a brick wall on one side and a wooden clapboard building on the other. There are wooden staircases and porches visible, leading up to what were probably apartment units or tenement housing. The architecture and construction style is typical of working-class urban housing from that era. The ground appears to be dirt or roughly paved, and there's some debris visible. The image has a somewhat cramped, confined feeling, highlighting the dense living conditions of the time. There's a marking or label that appears to read "BEALS" in the bottom corner of the photograph.

Meta Llama

Created by us.meta.llama3-2-11b-instruct-v1:0 on 2025-06-11

The image depicts a narrow alleyway between two buildings, with a staircase leading up to a second-story porch. The left side of the alley is lined with a brick wall, while the right side features a wooden building with clapboard siding. A small, round stool sits on the ground near the left wall, and a large pipe runs along the bottom of the brick wall.

In the background, a second-story porch is visible, with a railing and a few objects scattered about. The overall atmosphere of the image suggests a sense of neglect and disrepair, with trash and debris scattered throughout the alleyway. The image appears to be an old photograph, possibly taken in the early 20th century.

Created by us.meta.llama3-2-90b-instruct-v1:0 on 2025-06-11

This image is a black-and-white photograph of a narrow alleyway between two buildings, with a staircase leading to the second floor of one of the buildings. The alleyway is cluttered with trash and debris, and there are several objects scattered throughout the area, including a large pipe on the left side of the image and a wooden barrel on the right side.

The building on the left appears to be made of brick, while the building on the right is constructed of wood. The staircase leading to the second floor of the wooden building has a railing and several steps, and there is a small landing at the top of the stairs.

In the background, there are several other buildings visible, including a tall building with a flat roof and a shorter building with a pitched roof. The sky above is overcast, and there are no people or vehicles visible in the image.

Overall, the image suggests a urban or industrial setting, possibly from the early 20th century. The presence of trash and debris in the alleyway implies that the area may not be well-maintained or heavily used.

Amazon Nova

Created by amazon.nova-lite-v1:0 on 2025-06-09

The image shows a narrow alleyway in a residential area, likely from the early 20th century. The alleyway is lined with old brick buildings on either side, with wooden stairs and balconies connecting the different floors. There are clothes hanging on the balconies, and some are drying on a rope strung between the buildings. The alleyway is wet and dirty, with a wooden stool and a barrel in the foreground. The image has a black-and-white filter, giving it a vintage look.

Created by amazon.nova-pro-v1:0 on 2025-06-09

The black-and-white image shows an old, narrow alleyway with two old houses on either side. The houses have wooden walls and stairs in front. The house on the right has a wooden pipe on the wall. There are also clothes hanging on the rope between the two houses. The alleyway has a staircase and a stool on the left side. There is a watermark on the bottom right corner that reads "BEALS N.Y."

Google Gemini

Created by gemini-2.0-flash on 2025-06-03

Here is a description of the image:

The black and white photograph depicts a narrow alleyway or courtyard between two buildings. The building on the left has a tall brick wall, while the building on the right has wood paneling. A series of wooden stairs and platforms lead upwards, presumably to access the back entrances or porches of apartments. The upper stories have balconies with wooden railings, and clothes are hanging out to dry. The ground is paved with uneven stones, and there is some visible litter. In the lower left corner, there is a cylindrical object and a small, three-legged wooden stool. The overall impression is one of urban density and a slightly neglected or unkempt space. A string of white linens or cloths stretches tautly across the alleyway at the top, creating a stark contrast with the darker tones of the surrounding buildings.

Created by gemini-2.0-flash-lite on 2025-06-03

This black and white photograph depicts a narrow alleyway between several buildings. On the left, a tall brick wall dominates the scene, while on the right, a wooden building with clapboard siding stands. In the middle, a series of wooden structures lead to the back of a building with a balcony. Clothes are hung from lines stretched between the buildings, and smoke rises from a chimney, suggesting a fire or cooking. A wooden staircase provides access to the upper floors. In the foreground, the alley floor appears to be made of stone or concrete. A tree stump and a rolled pipe lie on the ground. The photograph is marked "BEALS N.Y." in the bottom right corner. The overall mood suggests a densely populated and possibly impoverished urban environment from the early 20th century.

Mistral Pixtral

Created by us.mistral.pixtral-large-2502-v1:0 on 2025-06-06

The image depicts a narrow alleyway between two buildings. The alley is flanked by a brick wall on the left and a wooden structure on the right. The wooden structure has a staircase leading up to a raised platform or porch, which appears to be part of a residential building. The staircase and platform look somewhat worn and weathered.

In the background, there is another building with a balcony where two individuals are standing. The alleyway itself is cluttered with various items, including a large pipe or cylindrical object leaning against the brick wall and some debris on the ground. The overall scene suggests an older, possibly urban setting with signs of age and wear.

The photograph is credited to "Beals N.Y.," indicating it might have been taken in New York. The black-and-white nature of the photo suggests it is from an earlier era, possibly the early 20th century.

Qwen

No captions written

Text analysis

Amazon

BEALS

Google

BEALS
BEALS