View of a square in the First Block showing a fountain and housing, Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union (now in Russia)

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Ernst May (architect)

Title:

View of a square in the First Block showing a fountain and housing, Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union (now in Russia)

Date:

between 1930 and 1936

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 14.9 x 21.1 cm sheet: 16.2 x 22.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0020:107

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered and inscribed - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l.: "14" [crossed out]; u.c.: "Magnitogorsk" [crossed out] and with title; c.r.: "Umen'shit' na 1/2 originala" [To reduce by 1/2 of original; between arrows] and "Sbornik V.A.A." [Compilation V.A.A.]; l.l.: "11/[illeg.]" and "15r"; l.l. to b.: "(k stat'e Balikhina v sbornik.)" [(to article by Balikhin in compilation.)]; and l.r.: "4." [within triangle]; and in pen and purple ink, u.c.: "10040 / 65 / 10 / 5/xi / ." [sideways] stamped - in black ink, on the print, verso, c.r.: "Izdat[el'stvo]. Vses[souznoi]. Akad[emii]. Arkhit[ektury]." [Publ[ishing]. of All-Un[ion]. Acad[emy]. of Archit[ecture].]

Location:

Magnitogorsk; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountain
apartment houses
square (open space)
industrial housing

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

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