P1970.1754: Untitled (children of Fortuna family, Hammond, Louisiana)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.1754
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (children of Fortuna family, Hammond, Louisiana)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- October 1935
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Louisiana, Hammond
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/301683
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 18.4 x 24.6 cm (7 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, center, upside down: 6074-4; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Fortuna children, Hammond, La. 1935 [over] Scehen in Natchez, Miss. October, 1935 mounted.; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left, upside down: L-6
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.1754
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 63
Verification Level
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