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December 20, 1938

Mr. F. R. Fraprie, Editor
American Photographer
353 Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Fraprie:

Mr. Porter, Director of the Riverside Museum, has turned over your letter of December 15 to me, as I have been assisting in making arrangements for the Hine exhibition at the Museum.

Since the exhibition runs through February, you may wish to mention it in your February issue. The importance of the exhibition is not that it hinges on the personality of Mr. Hine, but that it presents a full-length portrait of pioneer twentieth-century American documentary photography.

Various articles which have been published about Mr. Hine, including one by myself in the October Survey Graphic and one by Beaumont Newhall of the Museum of Modern Art in the November issue of The Magazine of Art and an article in the forthcoming issue of U. S. Camera Magazine by myself, traced the outlines of the documentary tradition in America and indicate Hine's place in that tradition.

If you want further information about Hine and his work, I shall be glad to cooperate with you.

Very truly yours,

Elizabeth McCausland

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