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"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31542
Display Title "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "2 / The Ruacana Falls, top of / one of the jets Shows the / narrowness of the canyon the / water falls into / 1950 / 424-22"
Department Photographic
Date 1950
Artist Merl La Voy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Omusati / <County> / Ruanca / Ruacana Falls
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31541 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls, showing many individual streams (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31535 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls, showing many individual streams (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31542.1 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31541.1 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31534 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls, showing many individual streams (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31535.1 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Ruacana Falls, showing many individual streams (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31540 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31538 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31537.1 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31539 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31538.1 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plant (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plants (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31536 "1950's 400 series / 15 glossy prints / Photos of Welwitschia plant / Ruacana Falls": Welwitschia plants (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld