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Solomon Fairman Reading His Daily Yiddish Newspaper

Elinor B. Cahn

Solomon Fairman Reading His Daily Yiddish Newspaper

1978

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Elinor B. Cahn

Solomon Fairman Reading His Daily Yiddish Newspaper

1978

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 356 × 275 mm. (14 × 10 13/16 in.) Image: 255 × 256 mm. (10 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.) Other (mat): 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1988.249.4
Elinor B. Cahn, Joan Clark Netherwood, and Linda Rich, Neighborhood a State of Mind, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, ill. p. 48.

Inscribed: FACE: BRCorner (graphite) 'p.0115'; VERSO: TLCorner (stamped in black ink) 'ELINOR B. CAHN/3317 WOODVALLEY DR./BALTIMORE, MD 21208'; BLCorner 'c ELINOR B. CAHN'; LC (graphite) 'Elinor B. Cahn, 1979'; UR 'Solomon Fairman reading/his daily Yiddish Newspaper'.

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Elinor B. Cahn

1924–2019

American, 1925-2020
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