Margaret Bourke-White
The World's Largest Blast Furnace: Magnitogorsk: Ural Mountains

The World's Largest Blast Furnace: Magnitogorsk: Ural Mountains

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The World's Largest Blast Furnace: Magnitogorsk: Ural Mountains
The World's Largest Blast Furnace: Magnitogorsk: Ural Mountains
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The World's Largest Blast Furnace: Magnitogorsk: Ural Mountains
  • from Margaret Bourke-White's Photographs of the USSR
Date1931, printed 1934
Place depictedMagnitogorsk, Russia
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 13 × 8 7/8 in. (33 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 14 in. (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins
Object number2013.729.3
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
ProvenanceLydia Winston Malbin, d. 1989, New York; [Sotheby's New York, April 26, 1990, lot 290]; purchased by Michael and Michele Marvins, Houston; given to MFAH, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso of mat top right in pencil: # 12
verso of mat top right printed label: Lydia Winston Malbin / 483 Aspin Road / Birmingham, Mich. 48009
printed on margin below image: THE WORLD'S LARGEST BLAST FURNACE / MAGNITOGORSK: URAL MOUNTAINS

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