Interior view of the Central Social Insurance Institution showing construction on card catalog drawers and mobile work stations, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

People:

Josef Ehm (photographer)
Paul Barchan (photographer)

Title:

Interior view of the Central Social Insurance Institution showing construction on card catalog drawers and mobile work stations, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Date:

1936

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16,7 x 12,4 cm sheet: 17,2 x 12,9 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:0972

Point of View:

interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

card catalog

Inscription:

stamped - in typescript and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, c.: "CELNI [ÚRAD ?] PRAHA - 40 - " [within outer circle; inner circle has decorative motif; faint] 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] signed - by the photographer, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, verso, c.: "Foto: Josef Ehm, Praha" [scribbled out in black ink] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: illeg.

Location:

Prague; Czech Republic;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

tracks
card catalog
drawers (furniture components)
elevators
machinery
chains (object genres)

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

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