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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2778
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Container Corporation of America, Circleville, Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
July 1938-August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Circleville
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302719

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.3 x 24.3 cm (6 7/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in blue ink on verso, upper right: SHAHN RESETTLEMENT PHOTO; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6581 M2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2778
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 134

Verification Level

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