Traditional dance, Mauritania, Africa, 1959

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Traditional dance, Mauritania, Africa, 1959
Traditional dance, Mauritania, Africa, 1959
Artist/Maker (French-Swiss, born Hungary, 1906 – 2003)
Date1959
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (23.5 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.63
Not on view
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Additional Details

Markings Verso, middle, blue ink (stamp): "news blitz, PHOTOREPORTAGES, Milano-Pizza Cayour, 2. Tel. 700.374"

Verso, bottom middle, purple ink, (stamp): "PHOTO ALMASY"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "PAL-3974"

Verso, bottom right, (pencil): "Mauratainia"

Bottom middle (pencil): "11"
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.64
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.39
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.72
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.74
Sewing lessons are still very frequent. Many women born in small villages in the bush never held a needle in their fingers before registering for the "Foyers Social" classes given by the Red Cross, Leopoldville, the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo), 1959
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Paul Almásy
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.75
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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