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Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1904 - 1971

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1938

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 9 3/4 × 13 1/8 in. (24.7 × 33.3 cm)

Mount: 13 7/8 × 17 1/16 in. (35.2 × 43.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund

2008.64.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in ink, on mount, upper center margin: 3 1/4; inscribed, in ink, on mount, left center margin: 3 5/8; inscribed, in ink, on mount, right center margin: 3 5[rest of inscription cropped, probably 3 5/8]; inscribed, in ink, lower center margin: 3 1/4; stamped, in red ink, on reverse of mount, upper center: PHOTO BY / MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / COURTESY LIFE MAGAZINE / NOT FOR PUBLICATION; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse of mount, upper right: YE1207

Course History

GERM 10, Germany and the East, Yuliya Komska, Winter 2013

SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013

Writing Program 5.01, Experience and Education: Students, Teachers, Institutions, and the Power of Learning, Francine A'Ness, Winter 2023

Writing 5.01, Experience and Education: Students, Teachers, Institutions and the Power of Learning, Francine A'Ness, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

America's Great Depression; Through the Eyes of Three Women Photographers, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-August 2010.

School Photos and their Afterlives, Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 8-April 12, 2020.

Provenance

Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2008.

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