Arthur Rothstein
Son of a Sharecropper, Wilson Cotton Plantation, Arkansas

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Son of a Sharecropper, Wilson Cotton Plantation, Arkansas
Date1935, printed 1970s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 7/16 × 9 1/2 in. (16.4 × 24.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by W. Temple Webber III
Object number2020.187
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Heritage Auctions, Dallas, August 12, 2020, Lot 39087]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, right: LC–USF330150TO10150[?]J02010–MI
Inscribed in pencil, verso, right: Arthur Rothstein // 1935

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