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Bill Brandt
Coal-Searchers Near Heworth, Tyneside Pithead Train In Distancecirca 1930, printed circa 1930

Not on view
Black and white photograph of three figures in dark clothing bent over a rubble-strewn slope, filling burlap sacks, with an open field and distant train in the background

Bill Brandt, Coal-Searchers Near Heworth, Tyneside Pithead Train In Distance, circa 1930, printed circa 1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Bill Brandt
Title
Coal-Searchers Near Heworth, Tyneside Pithead Train In Distance
Place Made
England
Date Made
circa 1930, printed circa 1930
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 13 7/16 × 11 9/16 in. (34.13 × 29.37 cm) Primary support: 13 7/16 × 11 9/16 in. (34.13 × 29.37 cm) Secondary support: 20 1/16 × 16 in. (50.96 × 40.64 cm) Mat: 20 1/16 × 16 in. (50.96 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.299
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
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