Nun Sweeping

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Nun Sweeping

Ilse Bing
(1899-1900 - 1998)
artist

Object Type

Photograph

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Date

1935-1940
1935 (Date photo taken)

Dimensions

283 x 197 mm (sheet)

Credit

Gift of Jeffrey Perry, 2017

Accession Number

2017.20.1

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  • brooms (maintenance tools)
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  • habits - Costume indicative or characteristic of a calling, rank, or function.
  • nuns - Women belonging to religious orders devoted to religious service and meditation. Nuns typically take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and often live apart from society in convents.
  • windows - Openings in the wall of a building, serving to admit light, usually to permit vision, and often to admit air.
  • women - Refers to female human beings from young adulthood through old age.

 

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