About the Artwork
Czechoslavakia
1938
Margaret Bourke-White
1904-1971
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13 5/16 × 10 3/16 inches (33.8 × 25.8 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Margaret McIntosh
1993.141
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso: Czechoslavakia | Foreign refugees living in | old factory in Strasnice - | part of Prague
Stamp, in red ink, lower center, verso: USED IN LIFE MAY 30 1938; stamp, upper left, verso: PHOTO BY | MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Provenance
Leon Karpel (Poughkeepsie, New York, USA)
Michael and Margaret McIntosh (Northville, Michigan, USA)
1993-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Margaret Bourke-White, Czechoslavakia, 1938, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Margaret McIntosh, 1993.141.
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