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Irish Channel, future site of St. Thomas housing project, St. Thomas and Felicity Streets, New Orleans
Irish Channel, future site of St. Thomas housing project, St. Thomas and Felicity Streets, New Orleans

Irish Channel, future site of St. Thomas housing project, St. Thomas and Felicity Streets, New Orleans

Artist Peter Sekaer (American, born Denmark, 1901 - 1950)
Dateca. 1936-1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 × 12 13/16 inches (24.77 × 32.54 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 13 7/8 inches (28.42 × 35.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.259
SignedSigned and annotated by photographer’s daughter, Christina Sekaer, on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “this is an original photograph by PETER SEKAER c.1935 [signature]”
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF98876”; On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: “BS42”
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DescriptionImage of African American children playing in street; others sit on porch steps outside homes which line the dirt road.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Estate of Peter Sekaer / Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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