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Image ID: 482645
West Side Highway and Piers 95-96-97-98, looking west from roof of 619 West 54th Street, Manhattan.
(November 10, 1937)
Image Details
Image Title
:
West Side Highway and Piers 95-96-97-98, looking west from roof of 619 West 54th Street, Manhattan.
Creator
:
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 -- Photographer
Additional Name(s)
:
Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.) -- Sponsor
Created Date
:
November 10, 1937
Medium
: Gelatin silver prints
Specific Material Type
: Photographs
Item Physical Description
: 1 photograph: gelatin silver print, matte, double weight paper; 6.6875 x 9.5625 in. untrimmed contact print on paper 6.6875 x 9.5625 in.
Item/Page/Plate
: inv. #0453
Notes
:
Code: I.A.1.c.; II.A.4.a.
Note 2.)
Eight cars visible on Westside highway, beyond water towers in foreground, piers have entrances on street, ships visible at dock.
Provenance
: Picture Collection transfer, 1988
Standard Reference
: CNY# 295
Source
:
Changing New York / Berenice Abbott.
Location
:
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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