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LL/12940
Margaret Bourke-White
1937
Bread Line

Gelatin silver print
7 x 9 1/2 in
 
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (Z1249)
 
"Photo, Margaret Bourke-White, 1937" written in ink on print verso in unknown hand.
 
The title "Bread line" is incorrect as the people were displaced by the Ohio River flood of 1937 which left around a million people homeless. Rick Bell, 2007, The Great Flood of 1937: Rising Waters, Soaring Spirits, (Louisville, Kentucky: Butler Books); David Welky, 2011, Welky, David. The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937, (University of Chicago Press)
 
LL/12940


 

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