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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2542
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Nanty Glo
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302340

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.4 x 24.6 cm (6 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red ink and crossed out in red crayon on tape affixed to verso, upper left: 97; inscribed in blue graphite and crossed out in red crayon on verso, upper right: 29; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left to upper right: Young boy who salvages coal from the slag [over] heaps. Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6226M3; stamped in black ink on verso, lower right: PLEASE NOTE: [OVER] Kindly Return Unused Photos [over] to the Division of Information and [over] Farm SEcurity Administration, [over] Washington, D.C.; stamped in black ink on verso, lower right: PLEASE CREDIT [over] F.S.A. [over] FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION [over] PHOTO BY: SHAHN; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 30 [circled]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2542
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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