42nd Street, 6th Avenue, The bread line for one roll and cup of coffee

People:

Edward Steichen (photographer)

Title:

42nd Street, 6th Avenue, The bread line for one roll and cup of coffee

Date:

1933

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.1 x 19.2 cm mat: 43.2 x 35.5 cm sheet: 25.2 x 20.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:1011

Inscription:

Inscribed; stamped - 42 St 6 Ave/At the depression/The bread line for/1roll & cup of coffee/ The line ran from 5th Ave/along 40 St to 6th Ave on/6thAve to 42nd St across the/street to 43 St -- (in pencil, in unknown hand,on print, verso, UC, C); 1933 (in black crayon, in unknown hand, on print,verso, UL); # 15 (in pencil, in unknown hand, circled in red pencil, onprint, verso, LL) stamped - JAMES C. MCKEON/511 Baldwin Ave./Baldwin, L.I.,N.Y. 11510 (in blue ink, on print, verso, LC); .... CLUB OF AMERICA/founded1961/....4.6....V-8..../ (in blue ink, portions of print illegible,oval-shaped stamp with early automobile design, surrounded by printing, onprint, verso, LC)

Location:

New York (City); New York; United States;

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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