Old Law Tenements: from Forsyth and East Houston Streets, New York

© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd.

Old Law Tenements: from Forsyth and East Houston Streets, New York

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Old Law Tenements: from Forsyth and East Houston Streets, New York,

February 11, 1937

Berenice Abbott, 1898–1991; born Springfield, OH; died Monson, ME
x1986-30

Information

Title
Old Law Tenements: from Forsyth and East Houston Streets, New York
Dates

February 11, 1937

Maker
Berenice Abbott
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.4 x 24.5 cm. (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 20.1 x 25.3 cm. (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerry N. Uelsmann
Object Number
x1986-30
Place Depicted

North America, United States, New York, Manhattan, New York, Forsyth St. and East Houston St.

Inscription
Signed in graphite below image, right: BERENICE ABBOTT Stamped in red ink, filled in with ink in unknown hand, verso: FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" / PHOTOGRAPHS BY / Old Law Tenements / From / Title: Forsythe [sic] and East Houston Streets / Place: Manhattan / Neg. #207 / Code: I-A-5 / Date: February 11, 1937
Culture
American
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
buildings, cityscapes, sidewalks

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