Margaret Bourke-White
A Blast Furnace Under Construction in Ural Mountains as Part of the First Five-Year Plan, Magneto-Gorsk, USSR

A Blast Furnace Under Construction in Ural Mountains as Part of the First Five-Year Plan, Magneto-Gorsk, USSR

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A Blast Furnace Under Construction in Ural Mountains as Part of the First Five-Year Plan, Magneto-Gorsk, USSR
A Blast Furnace Under Construction in Ural Mountains as Part of the First Five-Year Plan, Magneto-Gorsk, USSR
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • A Blast Furnace Under Construction in Ural Mountains as Part of the First Five-Year Plan, Magneto-Gorsk, USSR
Date1931
Place depictedMagnitogorsk, Russia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 14 × 10 1/4 in. (35.6 × 26 cm)
Frame: 18 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (47.6 × 57.8 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.262
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Light Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008

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