World War II: Army Service Forces

Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1904 - 1971

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1944

Overall: 17 11/16 × 14 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. (45 × 38 × 8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

2020.46.1

Geography

Place Imaged: Porto di Napoli, Campania, Italy, Europe

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

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Portfolio

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Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, on inner box, in gold ink: ARMY SERVICE FORCES / Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White / PRESENTED TO / LT. GEN. BREHON B. SOMERVELL / by / THE EDITORS OF / LIFE / 1944

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, New York, sale 5706, lot 78, 1988; sold to Raphael and Jane Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey, Lent to present collection 2019, Gift to present collection, 2020.

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