Les chambres recoivent ordinairement deux malades. Voici l'heure du / petit déjeuner. (The rooms usually accommodate two patients. It's time for breakfast.)

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Les chambres recoivent ordinairement deux malades. Voici l'heure du / petit déjeuner. (The rooms usually accommodate two patients. It's time for breakfast.)
Les chambres recoivent ordinairement deux malades. Voici l'heure du / petit déjeuner. (The rooms usually accommodate two patients. It's time for breakfast.)
Artist/Maker (French, 1902 – 1999)
Datec. 1940
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 9 3/8 × 7 in. (23.8 × 17.8 cm) Image: 7 3/4 × 7 in. (19.7 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.37
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Alternate Titles The hospital rooms usually receive two patients. Now is breakfast hour, France
Markings Verso, center (black ink stamp): "ALLIANCE PHOTO ADEP / 2, RUE St-SIMON. PARIS (7e) BAC. 11.71"
Verso, center (blue ink stamp): "PHOTO DENISE BELLON"
Verso, top left corner (red ink stamp): "ALLIANCE PHOTO"
Verso, lower half (typed adhesive label): "11292) Les chambres recoivent ordinai- / rement deux malades. Voici l'heure du / petit déjeuner."
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "DB-187.2"
Verso, top right corner (pencil): "Social 2"
Verso, center (pencil): "11292"
Sometimes it's best to ask for help, Trans-Saharian Highway, Sahara Desert, Algeria
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.51
Street scene with prostitutes and French sailors in the streets of Bousbir (Fortified enclosure of Casablanca, built to accommodate the "quarter reserved" for prostitution of the city. When Morocco became a French protectorate by the Treaty of Fez in 1912
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1936
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.53
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Horst Faas
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1938
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.41
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Burk Uzzle
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.263
All the old dances of the country are evoked in any role and even the quadrille of the lancers, Haute-Maurienne, France
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1941
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.24
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Date: 1930s
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.25
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Date: 1930s
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.26
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1930s
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.27
Untitled (Playing volleyball), France
Untitled (Playing volleyball), France
Denise Bellon
Date: 1930s
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.28
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1945
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.29
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Denise Bellon
Date: 1930s
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.30