Nun Greeting Postman / Ilse Bing

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Accession Number: 2012/2.43
Title: Nun Greeting Postman
Artist: Ilse Bing
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: American, born Germany, 1899/1900-1998
Medium and Support: vintage gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: 1935
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Agah, Class of 1989 (BBA)
Inscription: signed and dated recto
Dimensions: 28.26 cm x 21.27 cm (11 1/8 in. x 8 3/8 in.)
Physical Description: A nun and postman exchanging a signature for a package.
Primary Keywords: gelatin silver process; nun; post office
Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; descriptors; image-making processes and techniques; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by occupation; people in religion; people in religion and related occupations; people in the humanities; photographic processes; photography and photographic processes and techniques; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; public buildings; public buildings by function; religious (people); single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 2330 x 3357
File Size: 1 MB
Record: 2012/2.43
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.43/2012_2_43.jpg

In public portfolios: O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Work and workers (328)

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Full citation: "Nun Greeting Postman; Ilse Bing." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.43/2012_2_43.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.