About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Berenice Abbott
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Title
- Fortieth Street Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, Manhattan
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1938
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, center, in faded pink ink and graphite: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT [in rectangle] / Title: [stamped in pink ink] [illegible/obscured by paper] / Place: [stamped in pink ink] Manhattan [inscribed in graphite] / Angle of View: / Date: [stamped in pink ink] Sept 8 [?/obscured by brown paper] 1938 [inscribed in graphite] / Neg. # [stamped in pink ink] [obscured by broen paper] Code: [stamped in pink ink] I 43 [inscribed in graphite]" [both stamped are partially obscured by brown paper]; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "Fortt [crossed out] / Fortieth St. Between 6TH ["TH" in superscript] & 7TH ["TH" in superscript] Aves. N.Y.C. / By / Berenice Abbott"
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.7 × 38 cm (18 13/16 × 15 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation
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Reference Number
- 1943.1416
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