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The Family of Man (Wikipedia article) — uncited tour-venues table

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Citation

Wikipedia contributors. “The Family of Man.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Article version accessed 2026-05-07. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_Man

Tier justification

Tier 3: Wikipedia is a tertiary, crowd-edited source. Per CREDIBILITY.md, Tier-3 sources may be used as starting points but should not be promoted to verified status without independent corroboration from Tier-1 / Tier-2 anchors. This entry exists because the article carries a detailed two-table list of tour venues for “Copy 1” (First European tour) and “Copy 2” (Central America, India, Africa, Middle East tour), with city/venue/date entries that are widely circulated in derivative writing about the exhibition — but the Wikipedia article does NOT cite a primary or scholarly source for these tables (see Notes).

Relevance

Documents the Wikipedia article’s two tour-tables that are the most-circulated source of the city/venue/date specifics for The Family of Man’s international tour, and clarifies that those tables are uncited within the article itself. This entry is the proper place to record what Wikipedia says, while preserving the methodological distance: the data on this page is treated as a lead, not as evidence.

Key excerpts / pages

Direct fetch 2026-05-07. Verbatim entries from the article’s tour-venue tables, captured from the rendered article body:

Copy 1 (First European tour, 1955–1962):

  • Germany: “Berlin, Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Sept 17 – Oct 9, 1955”
  • Germany: “Munich, Municipal Lenbach Gallery, Nov 19 – Dec 18, 1955”
  • Germany: Hamburg, Hanover, Frankfurt — “Haus des Deutschen Kunsthandwerks, Oct 25 – Nov 30, 1958” (for Frankfurt)
  • France: “Paris, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Jan 20 – Feb 26, 1956”
  • Netherlands: “Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, March 23 – April 29, 1956”
  • Netherlands: “Rotterdam, Floriade, May–Aug 1960”
  • Belgium: “Brussels, Palais de Beaux Arts, May 23 – July 1, 1956”
  • England: “London, Royal Festival Hall, Aug 1–30, 1956”
  • Other Copy 1 venues mentioned: Rome, Milan, Belgrade (Jan 25 – Feb 22, 1957), Vienna (March 30 – April 28, 1957), Athens, Helsinki, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense.

Copy 2 (Central America, India, Africa, Middle East, 1955–1963):

  • Guatemala: “Guatemala City, Palacio de Protocolo, Aug 24 – Sept 18, 1955”
  • Mexico: “Mexico City, La Fragua- Conference of Central American States, Oct 21 – Nov 20, 1955”
  • India:
    • “Bombay, Jehangir Art Gallery, June 18 – July 15, 1956, ext. July 20”
    • “Agra, University of Agra Library, Aug 31 – Sept 19, 1956”
    • “New Delhi, Industries Fair Grounds-IX Session of General Conference of UNESCO, Nov–Dec 5, 1956”
    • “Ahmedabad, Cultural Center, Jan 11 – Feb 1, 1957”
    • “Calcutta, Ranji Stadium, March–April, 1957”
    • “Madras, Madras University, June 10 – July 21, 1957”
    • “Trivandurum, Sept 1–22, 1957”
  • Other Copy 2 venues mentioned: Seoul, Salisbury, Johannesburg (Aug 30 – Sept 13, 1958), Cape Town, Durban (Nov 11–25, 1958), Pretoria, Nairobi (Oct 1959), Cairo (Dec 1960), Alexandria (Nov 1960), Damascus, Kabul, Tehran.

The article’s Wikitext (also fetched 2026-05-07) shows ONE numbered reference inside the Copy-1 venue table — for the Munich showing, citing Zamir’s chapter “The Family of Man in Munich: Visitors’ reactions” in Hurm/Reitz/Zamir 2018. No other reference is attached to any other Copy-1 or Copy-2 venue row.

Notes

  • The tables are uncited. The Wikipedia article does NOT cite a primary or scholarly source for the city/venue/date data in either Copy-1 or Copy-2 tables, except for the single Munich entry which links to src-hurm-reitz-zamir-2018. The data plausibly originates from MoMA International Program records, USIA records (NARA RG 306), or Sandeen 1995 — none of which has been opened in any session of this project to date. Do not cite the Wikipedia tour-table data as if it were anchored.
  • Compatible-with-evidence vs. confirmed. The Wikipedia entries for Berlin (Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 1955) and Paris (Musée National d’Art Moderne, January 1956) are compatible with the surviving evidence fetched in this round and prior rounds:
    • The Berlin “Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 1955” matches the NARA-cited image caption quoted in src-c2dh-fomleg-world-tour (photo no. 306-FM-3). The specific dates “Sept 17 – Oct 9, 1955” remain uncited.
    • The Paris “Musée National d’Art Moderne” identification is consistent with the museum’s situation in 1956 (housed at Palais de Tokyo since 1947; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris was not founded until 1961, so cannot have been the 1956 venue). The dates “Jan 20 – Feb 26, 1956” remain uncited.
    • The India entries are not corroborated by any Tier-1 or Tier-2 source fetched in any session to date. They are listed here because Wikipedia’s edit-trail is the most-cited public source for these claims, but the citation chain back to a primary archive is missing.
  • Disambiguation note for Paris. “Musée National d’Art Moderne” (national museum, located at Palais de Tokyo 1947–1977, now Centre Pompidou) is not the same institution as the “Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris” (city museum, founded 1961, also at Palais de Tokyo). Some recent secondary writing about The Family of Man’s Paris stop conflates them, or uses “Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris” as the venue — a claim that is anachronistic for January 1956 since the city museum did not yet exist. (Both Wikipedia infobox entries for these two museums were fetched 2026-05-07.) Roland Barthes’s 1957 essay “La grande famille des hommes” — which is in the project as src-barthes-1957-fr — also names “Musée National d’Art Moderne” as the venue.
  • Source priority for these legs. Until a primary archival source (NARA RG 306; MoMA International Program records; Sandeen 1995 body text) is consulted, the appropriate posture is: name Berlin (Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 1955) on the strength of src-c2dh-fomleg-world-tour quoting NARA RG 306 photo 306-FM-3, with the specific dates flagged as Wikipedia-only / unverified; name Paris (Musée National d’Art Moderne, January 1956) on the strength of Barthes 1957 + Wikipedia, with exact dates flagged as Wikipedia-only / unverified; for India, do NOT name specific cities or dates from Wikipedia alone — the country-level CNA listing (src-cna-education) is the highest-tier confirmation, and Wikipedia’s specific city entries should be treated as leads pending a Tier-1/2 primary source.
  • Wikipedia article structure (article-level): article includes also infobox, sections “History”, “List of photographers”, “Reception”, “Tours”, “Tributes, sequels and critical revisions”. The tour-venue tables sit under the “Tours” section.
  • Perspective: tertiary / crowd-edited. This entry is intentionally a Tier-3 source so that downstream files do NOT promote Wikipedia data to verified status without independent corroboration.
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