I plan several posts from the Russian collection of photos by Margaret Bourke-White. These are all from 1931 in addition to the 1931 Magnitogorsk photos and 1941 Stalin photos.
Worker tightening a bolt on a generator shell. Dnieper River Dam.
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I continue to curate the Russian collection of photos by Margaret Bourke-White. These photos are all from 1931 in Magnitogorsk, the mining and industrial town on the border with Kazakhstan.
Russian woman grimly holding a slab of meat as other women staunchly stand
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) “was born in the Bronx, New York, to Joseph White (who came from an Orthodox Jewish family) and Minnie Bourke, the daughter of an Irish ship’s carpenter and an English cook; she was a Protestant. She grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey (in a neighborhood now part of Middlesex), but graduated from Plainfield High School. Her father was a naturalist, engineer and inventor. His work improved the four-color printing process that is used for books and magazines.”
View of the bed where Joseph Stalin was born.
Flood victims lined up to get food & clothing fr. Red Cross relief station in front of a billboard. February 1937, Louisville, KY . Photo by Margaret Bourke-White
The fist years of a recession aren’t that bad for people who have jobs and means. The taxes haven’t risen yet and the city services are sill intact. The products become actually cheaper and the bubble generates enough optimism for the stock marker to pretend that nothing changed. And then the city services catch up and everyone starts to notice. LA Times – City retirements threaten a deep and lasting legacy:
“Some policymakers have only begun grasping the magnitude of the exodus of librarians, building inspectors, traffic officers, city planners and other workers, many of them the city’s most experienced employees.”
