• Unknown (photographer)
• Ernst May (architect)

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

after 1929

Gelatin silver print

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

PH1998:0020:111

• exterior view

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

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]

Magnitogorsk; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• apartment houses
• industrial housing
• barracks