Jewish Teenage Refugees from Iraq, Landing at Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ruth Orkin, American, 1921 - 1985
negative 1951; print about 1974
Gelatin silver pint
Image: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
2018.9
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, stamped in red ink, on reverse, center: This print / must be returned to:; signed and dated, stamped in red ink and written in blue ballpoint pen, on reverse, center: © Ruth Orkin 1974; inscribed, stamped in red ink, on reverse, lower center: Ruth Orkin / 65 Central Park West / N.Y.C., N.Y. 10023; inscribed, in green felt tip marker, on reverse, center right: [arcing arrow pointing from "returned to:" toward Ruth Orkin address stamp]; inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, on reverse, lower center: "Jewish teen-age refugees from Iraq, / landing at Lydda Airport- / Tel Aviv, Israel, 1951."; inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, on reverse, lower center [partially visible below opaque sticker]: ([illegible] Gallery); inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, center up right edge: Pf[MM?]f72[Z?]; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper right along right edge: RO1.
Course History
ANTH 50.17, Rites of Passage, Sienna Craig, Spring 2020
Provenance
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2018.
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