Russell Lee
FSA Clients at Home, Hidalgo County, Texas

FSA Clients at Home, Hidalgo County, Texas

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FSA Clients at Home, Hidalgo County, Texas
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1986
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
Object Type
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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