Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White
Collection
Identifier: 8790
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Content Description
The collection consists of sixteen (16) photographs by Margaret Bourke-White. Subjects include the steel, oil, munitions, paper, aluminum, grain, fruit, dairy, and lumber industries, a turbine on the USS Maryland, women workers duirng WWII and astronomer Walter Adams with Mt. Wilson telescope.
Dates
- 1936 - 1951
Creator
- Davis, Gary S. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Margaret Bourke-White was born June 14, 1904, in the Bronx, New York. She was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. : 16 gelatin silver prints
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sixteen (16) photographs by Margaret Bourke-White depicting various industries.
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)