Firehouse and Fireboats at the Battery
Artist
Berenice Abbott
(American, 1898 - 1991)
Dateca. 1935
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.644
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT / Title: / Place: / Angle / of View: / Date / Neg. # Code:"
InscribedOn sheet verso, center right, in pencil: "Firehouse + / Fireboats at / the Battery"
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Seven Masters of Photography. Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN, February 1 - March 15, 1983, no cat.
Women Photographers. Drew University, Madison, NJ, Unknown - September 27, 1985, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2005.
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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