Wife preparing bread for her family at home, Morocco

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Wife preparing bread for her family at home, Morocco
Wife preparing bread for her family at home, Morocco
Artist/Maker (French-Swiss, born Hungary, 1906 – 2003)
Date1952-1960
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (21 × 20 cm) Image: 8 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (21 × 20 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.10
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Alternate Titles Wife preparing bread for her family at home, Algeria
Markings Verso, lower center (purple ink stamp): "COPYRIGHT / Almasy"
Inscribed Verso, top left (pencil): "PAL-2567"
Verso, center (pencil): "5 [encircled] / 140 mm [vertical]"
Verso, bottom center (pencil): "Maroc"
Peasant preparing bread, Bagdad, Iraq
Peasant preparing bread, Bagdad, Iraq
Paul Almásy
Date: 1946
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.9
Family at home teaching their children the alphabet, likely Dakar, Senegal, Africa, 1959
Family at home teaching their children the alphabet, likely Dakar, Senegal, Africa, 1959
Paul Almásy
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.64
Aboriginal man baking damper (bush bread) in a campoven (cast-iron pot with lid) outdoors by an open fire, Australia, 1968
Aboriginal man baking damper (bush bread) in a campoven (cast-iron pot with lid) outdoors by an open fire, Australia, 1968
Paul Almásy
Date: 1968
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.58
Peasant ploughing a field with dromedary and mule and draught animals, Morocco, 1952
Peasant ploughing a field with dromedary and mule and draught animals, Morocco, 1952
Paul Almásy
Date: 1952
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.37
Mother bathing her infant, Latin America, 1950s
Mother bathing her infant, Latin America, 1950s
Paul Almásy
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.54
A mother and student in conference with her university professor, Ivory Coast or Nigeria, c. 1960
A mother and student in conference with her university professor, Ivory Coast or Nigeria, c. 1960
Paul Almásy
Date: 1960
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.77
Portrait of large family in car, South America, ca. 1960s
Portrait of large family in car, South America, ca. 1960s
Paul Almásy
Date: c. 1960 - 1970
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.27
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Maria Luisa Learns and Teaches: Despite the tremendous development of tourism over the past ten years, despite the experiences and impressions of millions of people who visit foreign countries and sometimes foreign continents every year as tourists, students, for business, scholars or journalists are our knowledge of everyday life of people living in distant countries is still poor. Could the traveler who sees the mountains of wonderful vegetables on the market of a large South American city imagine vegetable growers who do not know how to prepare carrots, peas or spinach; six-headed families who own a large house but only a drinking glass, because no one has ever drawn their attention to the harmful effects of health when six people drink from the same glass at meal time; women who don't know how to cook rice, etc... There are countle...
Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.29
Family on an outing in the back of a truck, Pakistan, c. 1960
Family on an outing in the back of a truck, Pakistan, c. 1960
Paul Almásy
Date: 1960
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.41
Mobile home park, Hollywood
Mobile home park, Hollywood
Paul Almásy
Date: c. 1958
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.4
Mobile home park, Hollywood, c. 1958
Mobile home park, Hollywood, c. 1958
Paul Almásy
Date: 1958
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.31
An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
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Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.150