Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, 1936-1951
Collection Number: 8790
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, 1936-1951
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8790
Abstract:
Sixteen (16) photographs by Margaret Bourke-White depicting various industries.
Creator:
Davis, Gary S.
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
The collection consists of sixteen (16) photographs by Margaret Bourke-White. Subjects
include the steel, oil, munitions, paper, aluminum, grain, fruit, dairy, and lumber
industries, a turbine on the USS Maryland, women workers duirng WWII and astronomer
Walter Adams with Mt. Wilson telescope.
Margaret Bourke-White was born June 14, 1904, in the Bronx, New York. She was an
American photographer and documentary photographer. She graduated from Cornell University
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927.
Additional Margaret Bourke-White photographs depicting Cornell University located
in collection #47-1-2276, Margaret Bourke-White photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, #8790. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.
Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956
Subjects:
Documentary photography
Women photographers.
Photographers.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography, Industrial
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Aluminum Company of America Stranding Machine
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1939 |
10 1/4(h) x 13 1/2(w) in.; 26.04 x 34.29 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Cows on display in Borden Co. newly designed milking pens, New York World's Fair
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1939 |
10(h) x 13 1/4(w) in.; 25.4 x 33.66 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Lower section of spinning fram, Industrial Rayon Corporation, Painesville, Ohio
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1939 |
10 1/4(h) x 13 1/4(w) in.; 26.04 x 33.66 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Aluminum Company of America Stranding Machine
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1939 |
13 1/2(h) x 10(w) in.; 34.29 x 25.4 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Aerial view of storage tanks at Humble Oil Co., Houston, TX
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1951 |
10 1/2(h) x 13 1/4(w) in.; 26.67 x 33.66 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Norris Grain Co. grain elevator on Calumet River, Chicago, IL
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1951 |
10 1/2(h) x 13(w) in.; 26.67 x 33.02 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Aerial view of apple orchards in the Williamette Valley, Oregon
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1944 |
10 3/4(h) x 13 1/2(w) in.; 27.31 x 34.29 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Chief machinist's mate and two firemen at turbine on the U.S.S. Maryland
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1939 |
10 1/4(h) x 13 3/8(w) in.; 26.04 x 33.97 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Barking machines at Union Bag and Paper, Savannah
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1939 |
10 1/4(h) x 13 1/4(w) in.; 26.04 x 33.66 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Women at work in steel mill during WWII
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1943 |
10 1/4(h) x 13 1/2(w) in.; 26.04 x 34.29 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Skoda Munitions factory, Czechoslovakia
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1937 |
10 1/4(h) x 13 1/4(w) in.; 26.04 x 33.66 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Paper mill, Savannah, Georgia
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1939 |
13 1/2(h) x 10 1/4(w) in.; 34.29 x 26.04 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Aerial of large booms of floating lumber, Canada
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1937 |
13 1/2(h) x 10(w) in.; 34.29 x 25.4 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Astronomer Walter Adams with Mt. Wilson telescope
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1937 |
13 7/8(h) x 11(w) in.; 35.24 x 27.94 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Steel Mill in Pittsburgh, PA
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1936 |
13 3/4(h) x 10 1/4(w) in.; 34.93 x 26.04 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Steel Plant, Pittsburgh, PA
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1936 |
13(h) x 10(w) in.; 33.02 x 25.4 cm.
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Gelatin silver print
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