Title from caption on object: "Breadlines in Driving Storm"
1928
Artist
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.8 × 23.8 cm (7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.5 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2014.151.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
International Newsreel Corporation. Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2014.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
Inscriptions
retouching and crop marks across recto in black ink; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in brown ink: 1[1]5 [crossed out] 128; upper center and upper right International Newsreel copyright stamp in purple ink inverted; by unknown hand, across center in graphite: 749 / [3] [cols] / [d]eep / [illegible] / bonded / [?]an / sat; lower left stamped in red ink: NEW YORK; lower center printed in black ink on applied label inverted: watch your credit .. [?]R 424276 / INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL PHOTO / SLUG (BREADLINE) / BREADLINES IN DRIVING STORM / NEW YORK 3/4 3/4 BREADLINES SUCH AS / SEEN IN THIS PHOTO, WITH HUNGRY / MEN SHIVERING IN THE COLD, LINED / THE SIDEWALKS IN FRONT OF VARIOUS / MISSION HOUSES IN THIS RICHEST / CITY IN THE WORLD. UNEMPLOYED / WHO FLOCK HERE FROM OTHER CENTERS / OF THE COUNTRY WILL ONLY XXXX / FIND OTHERS AS UNFORTUNATE AS THEM 3/4 3/4 - / SELVES, WITHOUT FOOD AND SHELTER, SEEKING WORK. / THIS PHOTO SHOWS UNFORTUNATE MEN, OUT / OF WORK, WHO, ANTICIPATING A FEW / MORSELS OF FOOD AT THE MADONNA HOUSE, / CHERRY ST., STOOD ON LINE TODAY FOR HOURS, / UNMINDFUL OF THE BLINDING STORM. / SH 3-9-28 ABCE
Wikidata ID
Q64144723