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"Mother" Brown
"Mother" Brown

"Mother" Brown

Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905–1985)
1945, early print
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
DimensionsImage: 34.5 x 27.0 cm (13 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 34.9 x 27.3 cm (13 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.)
Mount: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Credit LineSophie M. Friedman Fund
Accession number2000.568
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsIn pencil on black mount, left: "Mother" Brown: 1945 In pencil on black mount, right: Clarence John Laughlin ProvenanceKelly Wise; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; from whom purchased by MFA, March 2000.
CopyrightThe Historic New Orleans Collection
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