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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Charleston, South Carolina
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Charleston, South Carolina

Date1955- 56
Maker Robert Frank American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Object number83.53
ProvenanceFraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA; purchased by the Seattle Art Museum, August 8, 1983
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Images: New Work By Twenty Contemporary Photographers, 1979. Set B, Group V. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 200 Photographs from the Museum Collection, Dec. 8, 1983 - Feb. 5, 1984. Text by Rod Slemmons. No cat. no. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Go Tell It: Civil Rights Photography, Apr. 30, 2016 - Jan. 2, 2017.
Credit LinePacific Northwest Bell, the Photography Council, the Polaroid Foundation, Mark Abrahamson, and the National Endowment for the Arts
Dimensions10 15/16 x 14 in. (27.8 x 35.6 cm) Sheet h.: 10 15/16 in. Sheet w.: 14 in.
MediumGelatin silver print
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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1955
Object number: 83.51
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1956
Object number: 83.52
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1955
Object number: 84.116
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1955
Object number: 85.242
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1950
Object number: 77.72
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Josef Breitenbach
1944
Object number: 94.79
So. Carolina, #377
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1908
Object number: 87.76
So. Carolina, #371
Lewis Hine
1908
Object number: 87.77
Frank A. Rinehart
1898
Object number: 84.140
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Frank Gohlke
1981
Object number: 83.69.5