Russell Lee
FSA Clients at Home, Hidalgo County, Texas

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Artist Russell Lee American, 1903–1986

Printer Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

CultureAmerican

Titles

FSA Clients at Home, Hidalgo County, Texas
Tenant purchase clients at home. Hidalgo County, Texas

DateFebruary 1939, printed 1976

Place depicted , Texas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 15/16 × 13 5/16 in. (25.2 × 33.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores

Object number76.283

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Target Collection of American Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Families," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, September 10, 2000–October 31, 2000.

"Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 3–February 25, 2007; Austin Museum of Art, May 19–August 12, 2007; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, June 5–August 24, 2008.

"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 top right reading vertically in pencil "47488/34[underlined] / 32010"

verso right center reading vertically a stamp "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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