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"1950's 400 series": Two expedition members standing on beach looking at water (print is a cropped image)
"1950's 400 series": Two expedition members standing on beach looking at water (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31593
Display Title "1950's 400 series": Two expedition members standing on beach looking at water (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in ink on photograph (verso): "Skeleton Coast - S.W.A. 1950"
Department Photographic
Date 1950
Artist Merl La Voy
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Kunene / Kaokoveld
Additional Geographic Terms Skeleton Coast
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 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": Expedition members pushing and driving a truck out of the sand (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31594 "1950's 400 series": Expedition members pushing and driving a truck out of the sand (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Expedition members standing and looking at the truck, with brush under the wheels, at the crest of a hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31576 "1950's 400 series": Expedition members standing and looking at the truck, with brush under the wheels, at the crest of a hill (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Expedition members standing on and next to truck, and chains laid out ahead of wheels (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31589 "1950's 400 series": Expedition members standing on and next to truck, and chains laid out ahead of wheels (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Expedition members putting brush under wheels of truck and retrieving something from the load (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31573 "1950's 400 series": Expedition members putting brush under wheels of truck and retrieving something from the load (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Expedition members putting brush under wheels of truck and retrieving something from the load (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31572 "1950's 400 series": Expedition members putting brush under wheels of truck and retrieving something from the load (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Expedition members standing on and next to trucks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31568 "1950's 400 series": Expedition members standing on and next to trucks (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Four men standing on a beach (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31587 "1950's 400 series": Four men standing on a beach (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950 400 series 43 prints / Kunene River, Kaokoveld, Ovamboland / Merle LaVoy & L.K.M": Expedition members standing in front of truck (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31771 "1950 400 series 43 prints / Kunene River, Kaokoveld, Ovamboland / Merle LaVoy & L.K.M": Expedition members standing in front of truck (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950 400 series 43 prints / Kunene River, Kaokoveld, Ovamboland / Merle LaVoy & L.K.M": Expedition members standing near the truck (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31768 "1950 400 series 43 prints / Kunene River, Kaokoveld, Ovamboland / Merle LaVoy & L.K.M": Expedition members standing near the truck (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950 400 series 43 prints / Kunene River, Kaokoveld, Ovamboland / Merle LaVoy & L.K.M": Expedition members working next to trucks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31774 "1950 400 series 43 prints / Kunene River, Kaokoveld, Ovamboland / Merle LaVoy & L.K.M": Expedition members working next to trucks (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Ditch on shore, with water in background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31592 "1950's 400 series": Ditch on shore, with water in background (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld
"1950's 400 series": Landscape with sand and rocks, and water in distance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31586 "1950's 400 series": Landscape with sand and rocks, and water in distance (print is a cropped image)
Kaokoveld