Clothes for the needy are provided by Maude (right) as extra task. Here she gives some old clothes to the mother of eight children whose house possessions were destroyed by fire. She sometimes used to buy clothes for poor out of own pocket, now gets many bundles from people all over country

© W. Eugene Smith | Magnum Photos

Clothes for the needy are provided by Maude (right) as extra task. Here she gives some old clothes to the mother of eight children whose house possessions were destroyed by fire. She sometimes used to buy clothes for poor out of own pocket, now gets many bundles from people all over country

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Clothes for the needy are provided by Maude (right) as extra task. Here she gives some old clothes to the mother of eight children whose house possessions were destroyed by fire. She sometimes used to buy clothes for poor out of own pocket, now gets many bundles from people all over country,

1951

W. Eugene Smith, 1918–1978; born Wichita, KS; died Tucson, AZ; active New York, NY and Tucson
2019-110

Information

Title
Clothes for the needy are provided by Maude (right) as extra task. Here she gives some old clothes to the mother of eight children whose house possessions were destroyed by fire. She sometimes used to buy clothes for poor out of own pocket, now gets many bundles from people all over country
Dates

1951

Maker
W. Eugene Smith
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
25.1 × 22.9 cm (9 7/8 × 9 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2019-110
Place Depicted

North America, United States, South Carolina, Pineville

Inscription
in graphite, on verso upper center: Y [in circle, crossed out] in blue pencil, on verso upper center: MAUDE x CALLEN in graphite, on verso upper right: Photo # 768196 in blue pencil, on verso center below red stamp: p 140 in graphite, on verso center: 3 [in circle] in red pencil, on verso lower center: A in black pencil, on verso lower center right: 46.1 % in graphite, on verso bottom center: PF 120425 in graphite, on verso bottom right: 671
Marks/Labels/Seals
Printed, on verso top, very faint: [title] Stamp in blue ink, on verso upper right: 39284 Stamp in blue ink, on verso right center: 10 [in square] Stamp in red ink, on verso center: USED IN LIFE APR 6 1953 Samp in black ink, on verso center: PHOTOGRAPH BY | W. EUGENE SMITH [circled in red pencil] | 134 OLD POST ROAD NORTH | CROTON ON HUDSON, | NEW YORK | CRoton 1-4890 Stamp in black ink, on verso lower center: ©____Time Inc. All Rights Reserved. | No reproduction, commercial display or other | use is permitted without express written | permission of the copyright holder.
Culture
American
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
photojournalism, costume, women, children (people by age group), nurses, mothers, porches

Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund

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