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• Title: Peter Sekaer photograph collection : architecture, housing and urban conditions in the United States
• Creator(s): Sekaer, Peter, 1901-1950, photographer
• Date Created/Published: ca. 1935-ca. 1940.
• Medium: whole collection 281 items.
  281 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; majority 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.) or smaller.
• Summary: Photographs show buildings, housing, slums and urban life in the South, Midwest, and some areas of the Northeast such as New York City and Pittsburgh.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: Collection is open to research.
• Call Number: LOT 13990 (G) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Photographs are organized into twenty-five subject categories arranged in alphabetical order using pre-assigned letter code designations derived by Sekaer's family (e.g., CT for Company towns). Subjects range from "Architecture, New Orleans (AO)" to "White slums (WS)".
  • LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • Each photograph has corresponding caption information supplied by Sekaer's family.
  • Gift; Mildred Constantine; 1976; DLC/PP-1976:012 (2 photos).
  • Gift; Christina Sekaer; 1987-1995; DLC/PP-1987:175 (24 photos), DLC/PP-1992:037 (73 photos), DLC/PP-1995:050 (12 photos).
  • Gift; Elisabeth Rothschild and Christina Sekaer; 1989; DLC/PP-1989:131 (24 photos).
  • Gift; Elisabeth Rothschild; 1989-1996; DLC/PP-1989:120 (24 photos), DLC/PP-1992:036 (24 photos), DLC/PP-1995:049 (26 photos); DLC/PP-1995:051 (12 photos), DLC/PP-1996:034 (24 photos).
  • Gift; Anne Sekaer DeMunn; 1991-1995; (DLC/PP-1991:275 (12 photos), DLC/PP-1995:047 (12 photos), DLC/PP-1995:048 (10 photos).
  • Documentary photographer, Peter Sekear (1901-1950) was hired by the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in 1936 to document government sponsored projects furnishing electricity to rural areas throughout the United States. By 1938 Sekear was working for the U.S. Housing Authority photographing urban slums, primarily in the South and Mid-West.
  • Finding aid available online https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp020007
• Subjects:
  • African Americans--Economic & social conditions--1930-1940.
  • Slums--United States--1930-1940.
  • Poor persons--United States--1930-1940.
  • City & town life--United States--1930-1940.
  • Houses--United States--1930-1940.
  • Housing--United States--1930-1940.
  • Working class--United States--1930-1940.
  • Commercial facilities--United States--1930-1940.
• Format:
  • Gelatin silver prints--1930-1940.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: LOT 13990 (G) [P&P]
• Medium: whole collection 281 items.
  281 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; majority 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.) or smaller.

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• Call Number: LOT 13990 (G) [P&P]
• Medium: whole collection 281 items.
  281 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; majority 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.) or smaller.
• Access Advisory: Collection is open to research.

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