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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.1414
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Tennessee, Huntingdon
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/301399

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19 x 24.8 cm (7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.1414
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ellen Dugan, ed., Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1996), 98

Exhibition History

  • Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 06/15/1996 - 09/14/1996
  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

Verification Level

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