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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2581
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (unemployed trappers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Louisiana, Plaquemines
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302385

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.4 x 24.6 cm (6 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red ink on tape affixed to verso, upper left: Plaquemines Parish, La. [over] Oct 1935. Unemployed [over] Trappers.; inscribed in graphite on verso, center, upside down: 6159-2; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left, upside down: K-25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2581
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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