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Letters

Letters
Letters
Letters
ArtistAmerican, born 1945
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Letters
  • from the series Theater of Memory
Date1984, printed 1987–1988
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 43 × 20 in. (109.2 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.1165
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.

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1949
Gelatin silver print
2020.334
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Julius Shulman
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1949
Gelatin silver print
2020.329
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Julius Shulman
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1940s–1950s
Gelatin silver print
2020.328
Image non disponible pour Letter
Thomas W. Harney
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dated November 23, 1989
Gelatin silver print
89.366.3
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Unknown American
[Mitten's Letters in a Drawer]
1940s–1950s
Gelatin silver print
2020.336
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Unknown American
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1948
Gelatin silver print
2020.331
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Emeke Obanor
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2020
Inkjet print
2025.311
Letter Opener
Thomas G. Brown & Sons
Letter Opener
1900–1915
Silver and flint
2004.1328
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Beverly Rayner
Letters never sent #95
1999
Mixed media
2000.27
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William Wegman
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2003.889.2
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Mother of Letters
1992
Spit bite aquatint, edition 3/25
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