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Hambourg's Modern Business District
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Artist/Maker (German, Bauhaus, 1901 – 1984)
Datec. 1930s (?)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 6 3/4 × 7 5/8 in. (17.1 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Michael Scott, Class of 1981
Object number2009.5.3
Not on view
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Alternate Titles Modern Hambourg
Provenance 1988: Private collection of Michael Scott, acquired by purchase from Swann Auction House, New York, NY
2009: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Michael Scott
Markings Stamp in purple ink on verso at center: FOTO EHRHARDT; stamp in purple ink on verso at lower center: ALFRED EHRHARDT / Hamburg 20 - Moorweg 50
Signature Signed with artist's stamp in purple ink on verso at center: FOTO EHRHARDT; with artist's stamp in purple ink on verso at lower center: ALFRED EHRHARDT / Hamburg 20 - Moorweg 50
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at center: Hambürgs modernes / Geschäftsviertel.
You have to be in good physical condition in the fence business because it's hard work. Everybody in the business is related, either your brother or your cousin works for us or for another fence company. Our product is better than the customer expects. We use the best materials and do the job right., from the series "Working"
You have to be in good physical condition in the fence business because it's hard work. Everybody in the business is related, either your brother or your cousin works for us or for another fence company. Our product is better than the customer expects. We use the best materials and do the job right., from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.91
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so governed is Ouarzazate in the South of French Morocco. / In front of the fortified post, which also houses the Ministry for Native Affairs, the "proconsul-administrator" of the district, Captain Fournier, is seen talking to natives. Note also mounted native soldiers on sentry duty before the fortress, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so governed is Ouarzazate in the South of French Morocco. / In front of the fortified post, which also houses the Ministry for Native Affairs, the "proconsul-administrator" of the district, Captain Fournier, is seen talking to natives. Note also mounted native soldiers on sentry duty before the fortress, Ouarzazate, Morocco
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.223
Abyssinian soldiers on horseback with flags, second Italo-Abyssinian War, Ethiopia
Abyssinian soldiers on horseback with flags, second Italo-Abyssinian War, Ethiopia
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Date: c. 1935
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.42
Soldiers with sabers, second Italo-Abyssinian War, Ethiopia
Soldiers with sabers, second Italo-Abyssinian War, Ethiopia
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Date: c. 1935
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.44
The Abuna: The Abuna receives his visitors, Ethiopia
The Abuna: The Abuna receives his visitors, Ethiopia
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Date: c. 1935
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.45
Plane crash, St. Mortiz, Switzerland
Plane crash, St. Mortiz, Switzerland
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Date: 1933
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.43
The only way to learn anything in photography is by making lots of mistakes. It's a painful education. Photography's a wonderful hobby but a very difficult business. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
The only way to learn anything in photography is by making lots of mistakes. It's a painful education. Photography's a wonderful hobby but a very difficult business. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.94
© Estate of Paul Almásy / Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.
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.
Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.29
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so administered is Tinerhir, southeast of Marrakesh, French Morocco. / Here is Captain Deal, one of the most capable and experienced officers in the French colonial service. He has served in Morocco for twenty years, has taken part in practically every campaign and is a thorough expert in native problems, Tinerhir, Morocco
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so administered is Tinerhir, southeast of Marrakesh, French Morocco. / Here is Captain Deal, one of the most capable and experienced officers in the French colonial service. He has served in Morocco for twenty years, has taken part in practically every campaign and is a thorough expert in native problems, Tinerhir, Morocco
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.222
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so administered is Tinerhir, southeast of Marrakesh, French Morocco. / In the courtyard of his residence, administrator Deal hears the complaint and arbitrates disputes of the natives. Men, women and children alike come to him with all their cares and torubles. He hardly ever fails them, Tinerhir, Morocco
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so administered is Tinerhir, southeast of Marrakesh, French Morocco. / In the courtyard of his residence, administrator Deal hears the complaint and arbitrates disputes of the natives. Men, women and children alike come to him with all their cares and torubles. He hardly ever fails them, Tinerhir, Morocco
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.224
Tennis Court, Marina District, SF
Tennis Court, Marina District, SF
Mark Citret
Date: 1995
Medium: Gelatin silver print on vellum
Object number: 2018.12.25
(Atrium) Financial District, San Francisco
(Atrium) Financial District, San Francisco
Jack Welpott
Date: 1980
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.76