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Pontypridd, photograph
Muspratt Dunman, Helen
(Photographer)
Photograph showing an elderly man with one wooden leg and stick talking to a man in the street, near Pontypridd. Print mounted on card.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
1999.16/4
Historical Associations
Association Type: Place name
Date: 1937
Creation/Production
In 1936 Helen Muspratt Dunman visited the Soviet Union and photographed the peasants and farmers as she travelled down the Volga. On her return she became a member of the Communist Party and continued her documentary photography in 1937 when she visited the Rhondda Valley in south Wales capturing the unemployed miners in their local communities.
Role: Photographer
Period: 1937
Acquisition
donation, 28/1/1999
Measurements
Length
(mm): 363
Width
(mm): 300
Techniques
Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph
Material
Paper
Card
Location
In store
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