One-way ticket
Langston Hughes · 1949
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What the record supports
Langston Hughes's work, "One-way ticket," dated 1949, is a publication comprising xvii, 136 pages with illustrations. The item measures 8 11/16 inches (22 cm) in height. The medium is not specified in the catalogue record. This work is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art within The Libraries department, having been a gift from the Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library.
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) was an American writer and social activist. The catalogue record does not provide further details regarding the work's classification, culture, or any exhibition history or specific literature related to this particular item. Provenance information is also not available in the supplied data beyond its gift to the museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds other works by Langston Hughes, including "Wrecking Crew" (ca. 1940) and "[Louis Armstrong, Basin Street East, New York]" (ca. 1954–56). Additionally, the museum's collection includes several issues of "The Magpie" from 1936 to 1939.
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