Letter #7

Alex Traube (b. 1946)

Date

1976
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

14 x 11 in.
Edition

portfolio 9/50
Inscriptions

Sheet Recto:
u.c. in ink: I remember you telling of how you grew up. \ Taking wood from old buildings being torn down \ because your family was too poor to buy coal. \ Fighting because you had to because you were \ a Jew. Going to high school at night because \ the family needed you to work during the day. \ You wanted to be a lawyer, but were forced \ to drop your classes at Colombia [sic] to work two jobs.
l.l. in ink: Letter #7.
l.c. in ink: 9/50
l.r. signed and dated in ink: Alex Traube 1976
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Andrew Smith, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Accession Number

P1990.32.7
Copyright

© Alex Traube

Location: Off view

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