• Unknown (photographer)
• Ernst May (architect)

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

early 1930s

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 8.3 x 17.3 cm

PH1998:0020:097

• exterior view

- The image and the inscription u.l. to u.r. of the verso have been cropped.

inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l to u.r.: "Magnitogorsk [illeg.]"; u.c.: with title; c.: "3783"; c.r.: "X" [circled]; and b.: "arkhiv Balikhina" [archive of Balikhin]; and in pen and purple ink, l.r.: "N171." stamped - in black ink, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "Kabinet Teorii i / Istorii Arkhite- / ktury V.A.A." [Cabinet of Theory and / History of Archite- / cture V.A.A.; within rectangle]

Magnitogorsk; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• apartment houses
• industrial housing