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Arthur Rothstein: Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Arthur Rothstein  (1915–1985)  wikidata:Q711226
 
Arthur Rothstein
Description American photographer, photojournalist, university teacher, journalist and opinion journalist
Date of birth/death 17 July 1915 Edit this at Wikidata 11 November 1985 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Manhattan Edit this at Wikidata New Rochelle Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1930s until 1985
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United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q711226
Title
Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas
Description
English: An unidentified car on a road in the Texas Panhandle with heavy clouds of dust in the sky - a typical phenomenon of the Dust Bowl.
Français : Cliché négatif (photo argentique) présentant une voiture sur une route du panhandle du Texas avec un ciel chargé de nuages de poussière, phénomène courant de tempête de poussière.
Date March 1936
date QS:P571,+1936-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium 1 negative; nitrate
Dimensions 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Current location
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
LC-DIG-fsa-8b27276 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USF34-002485-D (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-USZ62-125986 (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
Notes Annotation on original negative jacket: AR.; Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 0543 (Location of corresponding print).
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs; https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at; http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
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under the digital ID fsa.8b27276.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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