Preparing Groundnuts
- maker:
- Bert Hardy
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled Preparing Groundnuts." Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1956. Story titled "The Birth of a New Nation", about Rhodesia. Image shows a mother and baby on a native reserve in what is now Zimbabwe. Caption in magazine reads: "The Reserve in which she lives is thirty miles long by twelve wide, and lies between Salisbury and Bulawayo. Each family has nine acres for crops and a smaller plot for vegetables. The Reserve grows maize, rice, buts and beans. But many work in the nearest town."
Photographer's stamp on verso.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1991-5065/55
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 394 mm x 262 mm
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
