At the time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville Kentucky
- Title:
- At the time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville Kentucky
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Inequality and legacies of discrimination
- Creator:
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Creation Date:
- 1937 (negative)
- ID Number:
- 65
- File Name:
- 65.688.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Louisville (Ky.)
Great Depression
Floods
Race and economic inequity - Measurement:
- 37.9 x 50.8 (Sheet) (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Black men, women, and children lined up at a relief center in front of a billboard of a smiling white family with the headline: “World’s Highest Standard of Living—There’s no way like the American way.” The people are in profile, facing the right, and dressed for cold weater in overcoats and hats.
- Notes:
- Mounted on grey panel.
Printed later. - Cite As:
- Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971), At the time of the Louisville Flood, Louisville Kentucky, printed after 1937. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 37.9 x 50.8 cm. Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine, 65.688.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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