Preparing ammunition pouches in the underground arsenal of Harrar, Ethiopia

Alfred Eisenstaedt
Ethiopia, 1935
Gelatin silver print
11.5 x 9.5 inches (29.21 x 24.13 cm)
Purchase on the Photography Collectors Committee Fund
2022.174
Provenance: 
David Winter
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Verso: in ink, upper center, "Abyssinia"; sticker, center, "PIX / INCORPORATED / 250 PARK AVENUE / NEW YORK CITY / TELEPHONE: ELDORADO 5-4021"
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Eisenstaedt was sent to Ethiopia in 1935 by The Associated Press. Fifteen of his photographs from this assignment (not including this one) were then published serially in The Ithaca Journal, June 10-27, 1935, under the heading "Ethiopia: War Threat Looms for Black Empire."

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