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Documentary: 20th Century Margaret Bourke-White and the Otis Steel Company (1928-1929)
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1.Margaret Bourke-White
1929
Book cover for The Otis Steel Company - Pioneer, Cleveland. Ohio, (Privately printed, 1929)
[Otis Steel Company]

Book cover
Private collection of Allan Janus
LL/33034
2.Margaret Bourke-White
1929
Title page for The Otis Steel Company - Pioneer, Cleveland. Ohio, (Privately printed, 1929)
[Otis Steel Company]

Title page
Private collection of Allan Janus
LL/33035
3.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Blast Furnace Operator with "Mud Gun", Otis Steel Co., Cleveland
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
32.60 x 25.80 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/8 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.247
 
LL/40828
4.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Hot Pigs, Otis Steel Mills, Cleveland

Gelatin silver print
18 1/4 x 14 1/16 ins
 
Source requested
© Margaret Bourke-White Estate
 
Bourke-White's romantic admiration of functional architecture can be seen in her later pictures for Fortune and Life magazines. Bourke-White wrote: "To me . . . Industrial forms were all the more beautiful because they were never designed to be beautiful. They had a simplicity of line that came from their direct application of purpose. Industry . . . Had evolved an unconscious beauty often a hidden beauty that was waiting to be discovered."
 
Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), 49.
 
LL/33214
5.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Industrial Scene: Tower and Smokestacks at Otis Steel Co., Cleveland
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
25.70 x 33.60 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/16 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1974.217
 
LL/40833
6.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Quenching Hot Coke, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
26.10 x 30.80 cm (10 1/4 x 12 1/8 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.243
 
LL/40826
7.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Smokestacks, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
33.70 x 25.90 cm (13 1/4 x 10 3/16 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1974.215
 
LL/40831
8.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Untitled (Industrial Scene with Worker, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland)
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
28.60 x 25.70 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/16 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.248
 
LL/40829
9.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Untitled (Industrial Scene with Worker, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland)
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
30.00 x 25.40 cm (11 3/4 x 10 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.249
 
LL/40830
10.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Untitled (Industrial Scene, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland)
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
26.40 x 30.40 cm (10 3/8 x 11 15/16 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.246
 
LL/40827
11.Margaret Bourke-White
1928
Untitled (Train with Oil Cars, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland)
[Otis Steel Company]

Gelatin silver print
32.80 x 25.00 cm (12 7/8 x 9 13/16 ins) (image)
 
Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1974.216
 
LL/40832
   
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