• Edward Steichen (photographer)

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

1933

Gelatin silver print

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

PH1981:1011

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)

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

© Edward Steichen