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Artist Jesús Torres hand-decorating a clay pot at Hull-House Kilns

 

Artist Jesús Torres hand-decorating a clay pot at Hull-House Kilns; a man is standing in the background wearing a smock

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Title:
Artist Jesús Torres hand-decorating a clay pot at Hull-House Kilns
Date of Original:
1925-1929
Identifier:
JAMC_0000_0299_1036.tif
Permalink:
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Notes:
Torres immigrated to the US in 1924 and started taking classes at Hull-House after coming to Chicago. Vase may be the same one Nick Fosco is holding in #0299_0650; photo featured in Hull-House Yearbooks in 1929, p. 10; 1931, p. 18; and 1933, p. 19 with the caption "In the Pottery Class"


Rights:
Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Name
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)
Torres, Jes√∫s, 1898-1947

Photographer:
Kirkland, Wallace

Form:
Photographs

Building Name:
Hull-House Boy's Club

Collection Information


Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Source Variant Name:
Jane Addams Memorial Collection
Series:
Series II: Hull House
Folder:
299
Repository:
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)