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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1996.78
People
Harold Edgerton, American (Fremont, Nebraska 1903 - 1990 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title
Death of a Lightbulb/.30 cal. Bullet
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1936
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/281509

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 41.9 x 50.5 cm (16 1/2 x 19 7/8 in.)
sheet: 50.5 x 60.5 cm (19 7/8 x 23 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, b.r. quadrant, in graphite: Harold Edgerton
  • inscription: inscribed in black ink on recto of the sheet, lower left: Death of a Light Bulb/.30 cal. Bullet; inscribed in black ink recto of the sheet, lower right: ca.1936 32/40 Harold Edgerton; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: T; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower right: HAROLD EDGERTON; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower right: 3610.3032

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
P1996.78
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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