  About the Artwork
  
  
  Margaret Bourke-White captured this image of a Soviet iron worker on one of three photographic assignments she had for Fortune magazine in the 1930s. Fortune’s editors were intrigued by emerging industries in the Soviet Union, but they doubted that the country would grant access. On assignment in Berlin in 1930, Bourke-White pressed for a visa to enter the country and received it five weeks later. This photograph appeared in a 1931 issue of Fortune magazine.
  
  
  Title
  Iron Puddler, Stalingrad
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1930
  
  Artist
  Margaret Bourke-White
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1904-1971
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Gelatin silver print
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image: 13 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (33.7 × 23.2 cm)
  Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (33.7 × 23.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Photographs
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  F1983.125
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
