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The Chinese Used their Best Big Guns

Robert Capa

The Chinese Used their Best Big Guns

1937

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Robert Capa

The Chinese Used their Best Big Guns

1937

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 355 × 280 mm. (14 × 11 in.) Image: 335 × 260 mm. (13 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Life Magazine, 1938
Object Number 1977.29.16
Published in "A Victory Makes Taierhchwang China's Most Famous Village," Life, Vol. 4, No. 21, May 23, 1938, p. 21
BMA, "Recent Acquisitions from the Museum's Photograph Collection," 14 June - 6 August, 1978; Traveling 1 September - 3 October, 1978.

Joan Settle Robinson and Wesley L. Wilson, BMA traveling exhibition, "Images of War," 1980, circulated to Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Essex Community College; Hagerstown Junior College; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson; St. John's College, Annapolis; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster; Worcester County Library, Snow Hill.

Artist

Robert Capa

1912–1953

American, born Hungary, 1913-1954
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