Arthur Rothstein
Safety Meeting, Wilson Dam, Alabama

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Artist Arthur Rothstein American, 1915–1985

Printer Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

CultureAmerican

Titles

Safety Meeting, Wilson Dam, Alabama
Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Safety meeting

DateJune 1942, printed 1976

Place depictedWilson Dam, Alabama, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (25.6 × 34.1 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.414

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso upper left in pencil reading vertically "22611 / W34480 / JP"
center reading vertically "Safety meeting, Wilson Dam[sic], / Ala. (TVA) 1942, / Arthur Rothstein,FSA"
upper right in pencil reading vertically "Rothstein"

verso left edge reading vertically a stamp "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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