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Call Number:

PH-02546

Collection Name:

Ernst Mettler Photography Collection

Creator:

Mettler, Ernst, 1903-1933 (1903 - 1933)

No. of Items:

2 items

Span Dates:

circa 1930

Description:

The collection consists of two gelatin silver prints by the Swizz modernist photographer Ernst Mettler. Titles, from backs of prints, and subjects follow.

964:0093:0001 -- "New Public Baths, Zurich," circa 1930. Half-length portrait of a nude woman, head tilted back, standing under an outdoor shower;

964:0093:0002 -- "Gesund wohnen: aufgang zum dachgarten," [Healthy living: stairway to the roof garden], circa 1930. View of an open structure with a nude woman, her back toward the camera, sitting on the upper level and a nude child running up stairs from the lower level, circa 1930.

Accession No(s):

964:0093:0001-0002; Purchase, 1964

Location(s):

M Box, Small (964:0032:0001-0002)
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