Russell Lee
Kitchen of FSA Tenant Purchase Client, Hidalgo County, Texas

ArtistAmerican, 1903–1986
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Kitchen of FSA Tenant Purchase Client, Hidalgo County, Texas
  • Kitchen of tenant purchase client. Hidalgo County, Texas
DateFebruary 1939, printed 1976
Place depictedTexas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 × 13 1/2 in. (25.4 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in. (28.1 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number76.403
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso upper left reading vertically in pencil "RS 53142[underlined] / F34-32145"
bottom left corner "Russell Lee"
verso center diagonally a stamp "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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