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[Great Migration, India]

Artist (American, 1904–1971)
Date1947 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 3/4 x 20 3/8 inches (50.2 x 51.8 cm);
Mat: 34 1/8 × 26 1/2 inches (86.6 × 67.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Terms
  • Photographs
  • Gelatin silver prints
Object number65.613
Collections
[Great Migration, India]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1947 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[The funeral pyre after Gandhi's death, India]
Margaret Bourke-White
1948 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Man in famine-stricken village, India]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1947 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Muslim men pray toward Mecca, Delhi at Jami' Masjid, India]
Margaret Bourke-White
1946 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Mohandas Gandhi at his spinning wheel, Poona, India]
Margaret Bourke-White
1946 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Lying in state, Gandhi's body is covered by the flag of the new India]
Margaret Bourke-White
1948 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Starving woman, India]
Margaret Bourke-White
1946 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)