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The Top Strata of Life in Muncie, Indiana

Margaret Bourke-White

The Top Strata of Life in Muncie, Indiana

1936

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Margaret Bourke-White

The Top Strata of Life in Muncie, Indiana

1936

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 350 x 275 mm. (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.) Image: 340 x 255 mm. (13 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Life Magazine, 1938
Object Number 1977.29.11
Published in "Middletown-Muncie [Muncie, Indiana]," Life, Vol. 2, No. 19, May 10, 1937, p. 19
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Rena Hoisington, The Academy Art Museum, "Picturing America: 1930-1960 Photographs from the Baltimore Museum of Art," July 31 - October 3, 2009.

Inscribed: Verso: at upper right, in graphite: #140-1 / 5 [5 circled]"; at center, in graphite: "Photo by / Margaret Bourke-White"; at left, in graphite: "5.10.37 Muncie"

Markings: Verso: at left, stamped in red ink: "LIFE"

Artist

Margaret Bourke-White

born New York, NY 1904; died Stamford, CT 1971
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