Untitled (People running after a cotton truck while man on truck holds up a stick to keep them at bay, probably Shanghai), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

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Artist:
Birns, Jack
Date Made:
1948
Classification:
Photograph
Country:
United States
Artist birth Date:
1919
Artist death Date:
2008
Dimensions:
8 5/8 x 12 7/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.50
Full BAMPFA credit line:
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Transfer from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Century:
20 AD

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