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Image ID: 482564
Grand Opera House, northwest corner, West 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue, Manhattan.
(September 03, 1937)
Image Details
Image Title
:
Grand Opera House, northwest corner, West 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue, Manhattan.
Creator
:
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 -- Photographer
Additional Name(s)
:
Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.) -- Sponsor
Created Date
:
September 03, 1937
Medium
: Gelatin silver prints
Specific Material Type
: Photographs
Item Physical Description
: 1 photograph: gelatin silver print, matte, double weight paper; 7.125 x 9.1875 in. untrimmed contact print on paper 7.9375 x 9.875 in.
Item/Page/Plate
: inv. #1684
Notes
:
Busy street in foreground, including cabs, opera house now a movie house, men dismantalling sign on corner of bldg., businesses at street level
Note 2.)
Code: I.A.1.
Provenance
: Picture Collection transfer, 1988
Standard Reference
: CNY# 148a
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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