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Scope and Content Note
The collection contains images of people and places in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The photographs were taken by German-born documentary photographer Josef Breitenbach. People shown include entertainers, composers, writers, politicians, artists, educators and some nude figure studies. Famous people depicted include Josef Albers, Emile Bernard, Bertolt Brecht, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Leonhard Frank, Wassily Kandinsky, John Steinbeck, and Sarah Vaughan. Documentary photographs of Asia show city and village life, landscapes, workers, women, children and temples in Bali, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, and Nepal. Most photographs have handwritten captions.