View of Magnitogorsk showing housing, some under construction, and barracks [?], Soviet Union (now in Russia)

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Ernst May (architect)

Title:

View of Magnitogorsk showing housing, some under construction, and barracks [?], Soviet Union (now in Russia)

Date:

after 1929

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 14.6 x 21.2 cm secondary support: 20.5 x 29.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0020:111

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The image and the inscription l.r. of the print have been cropped.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the photographer ? scratched in the negative, l.r.: "[MAG]NITOGORSK" [backwards] labelled, numbered and imprinted - in typescript, on a paper label affixed to the secondary support, u.l. to c.l.: "Neg.No [sic] 3794" [underlined]; with title; and "Tema: Zhilkompleks / sotsgoroda." [Topic: Hous[ing]complex of / soc[ialist]city.] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in purple ballpoint pen, on the secondary support under the label, l.l.: "Iz arkhiva Balikhina" [From archive of Balikhin] numbered - by unknown hands, in pen and blue ink, on the secondary support, verso,u.l.: "3794" [crossed out; diagonally] and "942." [diagonally]

Location:

Magnitogorsk; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

apartment houses
industrial housing
barracks

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

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