Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Gelatin silver print of a boy suffering from a toothache clutching a tattered school notebook, Slonim, ca. 1935-38.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley
Physical Details
- Classification
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Photographs
- Category
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Photographic prints
- Object Type
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Documentary photography (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Image of boy standing in street holding documents and wearing an overcoat and a hat.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
pictorial area: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) - Materials
- overall : photographic paper
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. In the event the ICP traveling exhibition "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered" ("Exhibition") is held in a similar geographic area, the Institution agrees that it will not exhibit the same prints for the duration of the Exhibition.
- Copyright Holder
- Mara Vishniac Kohn
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photoraphic print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Mara Vishniac Kohn, the daughter of Roman Vishniac.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:51:00
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