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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.466
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (county fair, central Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284863

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16 x 24 cm (6 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 31 (circled); inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: 6706-M4; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6706M4; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Sideshow. County Fair, Central Ohio Aug. 1938

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.466
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), 113

Verification Level

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