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The Chinese Used their Best Big Guns

Robert Capa

The Chinese Used their Best Big Guns

1938

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Robert Capa

The Chinese Used their Best Big Guns

1938

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 355 × 280 mm. (14 × 11 in.) Image: 335 × 260 mm. (13 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Life Magazine, 1938
Object Number 1977.29.16
BMA, "Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Photograph Collection," 14 June - 6 August, 1978; Traveling 1 September - 3 October, 1978.

Joan Settle Robinson and Wesley L. Wilson, BMA traveling exhibition, "Images of War," 1980, circulated to Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Essex Community College; Hagerstown Junior College; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson; St. John's College, Annapolis; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster; Worcester County Library, Snow Hill.

Artist

Robert Capa

American, born Hungary, 1913-1954

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