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[Mohandas Gandhi at his spinning wheel, Poona, India]
[Mohandas Gandhi at his spinning wheel, Poona, India]

[Mohandas Gandhi at his spinning wheel, Poona, India]

Artist (American, 1904–1971)
Date1946 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (49.2 × 37.5 cm);
Mount (matted): 27 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (71 × 56 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Terms
  • Photographs
  • Gelatin silver prints
  • Gandhi, Mahatma
  • Spinning
Object number65.648
Collections
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[Mohandas Gandhi on a morning stroll with his granddaughter Sita and grandniece Abbha, India]
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Margaret Bourke-White
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[Margaret Bourke-White practices spinning with Sita, Gandhi's granddaughter]
[Margaret Bourke-White practices spinning with Sita, Gandhi's granddaughter]
Margaret Bourke-White
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Mahatma Gandhi spinning
Mahatma Gandhi spinning
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[Lying in state, Gandhi's body is covered by the flag of the new India]
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[The funeral pyre after Gandhi's death, India]
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[Ghanshyamdas Birla (right) entering his house with Vallabhbhai Patel (Deputy Prime Minister of India)]
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[Butcher brandishing a switch over cuts of meat to keep the flies away in his stall at the market, Lahore, India]
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Margaret Bourke-White
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[Botswana police prepare for Bantu riot over the possible deposing of Bamangwato tribal chief Seretse Khama who has been called to England to defend his right to remain head of his country after marrying English white woman]
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Margaret Bourke-White
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[A preacher and his parishioners, Cleveland Public Square]
[A preacher and his parishioners, Cleveland Public Square]
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[A man's wife, mother and grandmother mourn his death, South Korea]
[A man's wife, mother and grandmother mourn his death, South Korea]
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