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Signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "BERENICE ABBOTT"; verso, on mount, upper center: "[government label]"; stamped and inscribed verso, on mount, lower left, in graphite and brown ink: "Federal Art Project / NYCty [?] / Berenice Abbott, supervisor [inscribed in graphite] / photograph / berenice abbott / 50 commerce st. / new york city [stamped in brown ink] / Forsythe [sic] + East Huston [sic] Streets / Neg. 207 - Code III B - 1 / February 11, 1937 [inscribed in graphite]"
The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation
Reference Number
1943.1403
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