P2005.36: Britain at War (London taxi driver knitting for war effort)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P2005.36
- People
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Carl Mydans, American (Boston, Massachusetts 1907 - 2004 Larchmont, New York)
- Title
- Britain at War (London taxi driver knitting for war effort)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1939
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/18861
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 26.5 x 33.8 cm (10 7/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: verso, center in black ink: Carl Mydans
- inscription: verso, center, ink, in artist's hand: #5397 [over] C1 [over] 1 [over] London taxi driver [over] Britain at War [over] 1939
- stamp: verso, center, black ink: PHOTO BY [over] CARL MYDANS
- inscription: verso, center, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: Carl Mydans
- inscription: verso, b.r., graphite: 5397 [over] C1/1
- inscription: verso, b.r., black ink, in artist's hand: illegible word beginning with a "P"
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of Carl Mydans
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- P2005.36
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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