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Through a Door in the Slums (The Lost Child)
Through a Door in the Slums (The Lost Child)

Through a Door in the Slums (The Lost Child)

Artist Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905 - 1985)
DateFebruary 12, 1939; printed 1958
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (34.93 x 27.31 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1734
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DescriptionGelatin silver print of woman with child peering out of a window in a run-down building.
Copyright© The Historic New Orleans Collection
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1940
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Poem of a Lost Street No. 1
Clarence John Laughlin
1955
2005.27.1759
Street of the Lost
Clarence John Laughlin
1939
2005.27.1722
The House of the Lost( The Melieu of Loss)
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Three Vistas Through One Wall
Clarence John Laughlin
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2005.27.1761
Door of Threat (Door of Menace).
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1964/1973
2005.27.1659
We Reach for our Dead Hearts (We Reach for Our Lost Hearts)
Clarence John Laughlin
February 9, 1941; printed 1950
2005.27.1715
The Disastrous Gate
Clarence John Laughlin
1941
2005.27.1703
Clock in Suspended Time
Clarence John Laughlin
1950
2005.27.1680
Children of the Ruins #2
Clarence John Laughlin
1939
2005.27.1730
Chicago Slums
Lewis W. Hine
1910
2005.27.1479
Doorway to a Lost World, Cripple Creek, Colorado
Clarence John Laughlin
April 7, 1955; printed 1973
2005.27.1663