Object number2002.31.2

Bombed Harbor, Lubeck, Germany

Date1945

Artist Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (24.13 x 19.69 cm)
Sheet: 10 x 8 1/4 in. (25.4 x 20.96 cm)

Credit LineGift from the Michael and Joyce Axelrod collection (Joyce Jacobson, class of 1961) in honor of Howard Greenberg

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedInscribed (recto, at top): #9; (verso, at top in blue pencil): 17786-E / TolsesDP / p48 - 1; (verso, LLC, in blue pencil): GERMANY-CITIES-LUBECK / WARS-WWII-GERMANY-RUINS-LUBECK; (verso, at bottom, with blue stamp): LIFE PHOTO BY MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / May 29 1945; (verso, at center, red stamp): RETURN TO TIME, INC. PICTURE Jan 1984 COLLECTION FILE; (verso, at URC, in pencil): ships subs cont; (verso, at right edge, in pencil): MB80; (at bottom center, in pencil): Lubeck - Harbor with sunken ship

BibliographyHistories of Photography (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2003), back cover MB 80Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Histories of Photography," July 5 - September 21, 2003. (see below)

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