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Lee, Russell
(1903-1986)Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana; Daughter of sharecroppers, New Madrid County, Missouri

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Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana, 1939; Daughter of sharecroppers, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938. 2 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints/printed 1970s. Each circa 20,5 x 25,5 cm. Each with "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress" stamp, a Stockholm exhibition stamp and annotations/layout marks in pencil on the verso.

Some handling marks/dents, some creases, otherwise in good condition. With: A postcard of the first image printed by Galerie Taube in 1976 for the exhibition "Die USA der dreißiger Jahre in Fotografien".

Provenance: Galerie Taube, Berlin

Exhibition: "Die USA der dreißiger Jahre in Fotografien", Galerie Taube, Berlin Sept.4 - Oct. 2,1976.

Lit.: Roy Stryker/Nancy Wood. In This Proud Land: America, 1935-1943 as seen in the FSA photographs. New York 1973, ill. p. 143.
Forrest Jack Hurley. Russell Lee. Photographer. Dobbs Ferry 1978, ill. p. 69.