P1970.2768: Untitled (Post Office, Hernshaw, West Virginia)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.2768
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (Post Office, Hernshaw, West Virginia)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- October 1935
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, West Virginia, Hernshaw
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/302695
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.5 x 24.7 cm (7 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: inscribed in red ink on tape affixed to verso, upper left: dup. of [over] 133; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: Post office, Hernshas, West VA. Oct. 1935. 6148 [upside down]; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: O-10; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: RA6148M3
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.2768
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 78
Verification Level
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