• Unknown (photographer)
• Ernst May (architect)

Portrait of an unidentified man and boy showing housing and a grocery store of the First Block in the background, Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union (now in Russia)

between 1930 and 1936

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 11.4 x 16.3 cm sheet: 13.0 x 17.9 cm

PH1998:0020:104

• exterior view

inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l. to u.r.: with title; u.c. to c.r.: "Magnitogorsk / f[abri] - ka" [Magnitogorsk / f[acto] - ry; crossed out]; c.l.to c.r.: "Umen'shit' na 1/3 originala" [To reduce at 1/3 of original; between arrows]; c.l.: "7/[illeg.]"; c.r.: "X" [circled] and "Sbornik VAA" [Compilation VAA]; l.l.: "10r"; l.l. to b.: "(K st[at'e] Balikhina v sborn[ik])." [(To art[icle]. of Balikhin in comp[ilation].)]; and l.r.: "19." [within triangle]; and in pen and purple ink, l.c.: "10040 / 65 / 10 / 5/xi" [sideways] stamped - in black ink, on the print, verso, u.c.: "Izdat[el'stvo]. Vses[souznoi]. Akad[emii]. Arkhit[ektury]." [Publ[ishing]. of All-Un[ion]. Acad[emy]. of Archit[ecture].]

Magnitogorsk; Russia (Federation);

• architecture
• portrait

• apartment houses
• square (open space)
• industrial housing
• grocery store