Interior view of the Central Social Insurance Institution showing men working in mobile work stations used to access the card catalog drawers, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

People:

Josef Ehm (photographer)
Paul Barchan (photographer)

Title:

Interior view of the Central Social Insurance Institution showing men working in mobile work stations used to access the card catalog drawers, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Date:

1936

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22,9 x 17,9 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:0969

Point of View:

interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- There is a faint graphite [?] line that runs up the r. side of the composition, with a white substance on the r. side of the line on both the top and the bottom.

Inscription:

stamped - in typescript and purple ink, on the sheet, verso, c.: "Pawel Barchan / 159, Bd Montparnasse / Paris 6e / Tél. Danton 48-42" [within a box] stamped - in typescript and pink ink, on the sheet, verso, c.r.: [illeg.; scribbled out with blue ink] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "P.5"; u.c.: "Central Social Insurance Institution / Prague"; l.c.: "4 1/4 / WI" numbered - by an unknown hand, in red pencil, on the sheet, verso, c.: "4" [circled]

Location:

Prague; Czech Republic;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

desks
men (male humans)
lamps (light devices)
card catalog
drawers (furniture components)
elevator
machinery

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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