• Berenice Abbott (photographer)

View of construction work in progress at the Rockefeller Center, with excavation in foreground, New York, New York, United States

1933

Gelatin silver print

composition: 24.25 x 19 cm mat: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) sheet: 24.25 x 19 cm secondary support: 24.25 x 19 cm

PH1982:0336

inscribed - Rockefeller Center, 1933 (in pencil, in unknown hand, on pencil-drawn line, on mount, verso, LC); Excavation & skeleton of new bldg.(in pencil, in photographer's hand, on mount, verso, LC) stamped - photograph/berenice abbott/56west 53rd st./new york city (in brown ink,stamped twice on mount, verso,UC, C); BERENICE ABBOTT/PHOTOGRAPH/50 COMMERCE STREET/NEW YORK 14, N.Y. (in black ink, on mount, verso, UR); PHOTO/BERENICE ABBOTT/56 WEST 53rd STREET/NEWYORK CITY (in purple ink, on mount, verso, C) signed - Berenice Abbott (in pencil, on mount, verso, LC)

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

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