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Slum Children, Wells Street, Chicago

Diana Woelffer

Slum Children, Wells Street, Chicago

1948

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Diana Woelffer

Slum Children, Wells Street, Chicago

1948

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 280 x 268 mm. (11 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Susan Ehrens, Oakland, California, in Memory of Frederick Richard Fisher
Object Number 2003.296
Vintage print.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Susan Ehrens and Leland Rice, Oakland, California; Emerson and Dina Woelffer.
Travis, David, ed. Taken by Design, Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971;Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 246.

Stephen Daiter Photography. Light and Vision: Photography at the School of Design in Chicago, 1937-52; Chicago: Stephen Daiter Photography, 1994.

Inscribed: upper center verso in graphite: "'Slum Children'/ Diana Woelffer/ Rt 1 Box 121 B/ Colorado Springs, Colo"; lower center verso in black ink: "Wells St. Chicago/ 1949; lower center verso stamped: "PLEASE CREDIT/ DIANA WOELFFER"; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: "DW 17"

Artist

Diana Woelffer

1906–1989

American, 1907-1990
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