Henri Cartier-Bresson
Right to left, The Stewart Title Building, next the Trueheart-Adriance Building, and center, The First National Bank Building, circa 1878, design attributed to J.M. Brown, who is also said to have supervised its construction

Right to left, The Stewart Title Building, next the Trueheart-Adriance Building, and center, The First National Bank Building, circa 1878, design attributed to J.M. Brown, who is also said to have supervised its construction

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Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)French, 1908–2004

CultureFrench

Titles

Right to left, The Stewart Title Building, next the Trueheart-Adriance Building, and center, The First National Bank Building, circa 1878, design attributed to J.M. Brown, who is also said to have supervised its construction
from the series The Galveston That Was

Date1962

Place depictedGalveston, Texas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 11 15/16 in. (20 × 30.3 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 11/16 in. (24 × 32.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum commission

Object number65.241

Not on view

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: " The Galveston That Was," Centre on the Strand, Galveston, TX, Sep 21 - Dec 15 1971 (LN:71.10)

Exhibited: The Galveston Historical Society, Galveston TX, Apr 26 - 29 1973 (LN:73.15)

Exhibited: "Victorian Galveston: An Architectural Portrait," Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Nov 29, 1990 - Jan 14, 1991 (LN:90.30)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso, upper left corner in pecil "66 [x'd out] / 56", in red pencil: "56 [circled and x'd out]""pp.110-111"; lower left in ink: "22nd & B"
upper right in pencil "ss", lower right[upside down] "7711-4"
recto top left "56", bottom margin cropping marks

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