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The Sneeze

(American, 1903–1990)
about 1949
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print (printed in the late 1980s)
DimensionsSheet: 27.7 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Image: 22.3 x 30 cm (8 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Gus and Arlette Kayafas
Accession number2006.2079
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsVerso, in graphite, bottom: Study Print Harold Edgerton ca 1949; bottom rt: Estate Stamp: Estate of Harold E. Edgerton (in graphite)15.008
ProvenanceHarold Edgerton, Cambridge, MA, to Gus and Arlette Kayafas, Concord MA, late 1980s; Gus and Arlette Kayafas donated to the MFA, year end 2006
Copyright© Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
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