Peter Sekaer
Birmingham

ArtistAmerican, born Denmark, 1901–1950
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Birmingham
Datec. 1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (16.8 × 23.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 5/8 in. (18.1 × 24.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies
Object number94.58
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso left in pencil "hobby[circled]"
center[upside down] "S-3[partial erasure]"
verso top center typed "credit to / United States Housing Authority / will be appreciated"
right edge typed reading vertically "USHA #'s36 / BIRMINGHAM : His one-room apartment is his repair shop for violins"
lower right a stamp reading vertically "RECEIVED / AUG 19 1938 / KASTNER&BERLA / ARCHITECTS / 2 DUPONT CIRCLE / WASHINGTON, D.C."

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