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Untitled (Empire State Building)

Artist Lewis W. Hine (American, 1874 - 1940)
Dateca. 1931
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 inches (24.13 × 19.21 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1443
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, top, in black ink: "Lewis W. Hine / Interpretive Photography / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON / NEW YORK"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "353"; On sheet verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "57" [circled]; On sheet verso, upper right, in red pencil: "E29" [circled].
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DescriptionImage of aerial view of NYC as taken from Empire State Building during construction. A man is seated across a steel beam and attaches bolts with a hand tool.Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1973;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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