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[Couple Cutting Cake with Candles, Surrounded by Adults and Children]

[Couple Cutting Cake with Candles, Surrounded by Adults and Children]

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[Couple Cutting Cake with Candles, Surrounded by Adults and Children]
Artist
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Couple Cutting Cake with Candles, Surrounded by Adults and Children]
Date1947
Place depictedUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 2 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (7 × 10.3 cm)
 Sheet: 3 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (8.2 × 11.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter J. Cohen
Object number2025.779.53
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenancePeter J. Cohen, New York; given to MFAH, 2025.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black ink, verso, upper center: In the year of 1947
Stamped in black ink, verso, center upside down: 056

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