North Africa, Oran, Steel Mats

Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1904 - 1971

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1944

Gelatin silver print

Image: 9 7/16 × 13 5/16 in. (23.9 × 33.8 cm)

Sheet: 14 × 16 15/16 in. (35.5 × 43.1 cm)

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

2020.46.1.28

Portfolio / Series Title

Number 28 of 57 from World War II: Army Service Forces

Geography

Place Imaged: Oran, Algeria, Africa

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

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Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, on mount, lower right, in graphite: Bourke-White; numbered, on mount, lower left corner, in graphite: 28; typed label, on reverse, bottom center edge: 28. North Africa - Oran- Steel mats.

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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