Low Class Apartments or Tenements, New York City

Artist Horace D. Ashton (American, 1883 - 1976)

Date1905

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (11.43 × 9.53 cm)
Mount: 5 1/8 × 3 13/16 inches (13.02 × 9.68 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3058

Signednone

InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, stamp, in purple ink with black pen: "85726 CPT. 1905 R."; On mount recto, bottom, in black pen: "Low class apartments or" [illeg. torn].

MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "H. ASHTON"; On mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "P5.369-1-94", "2005.27.3058"; On mount verso, bottom, in black pen: "86126"; On mount verso, bottom, in red pencil: [red cirled with a dot inside].

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DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print from Underwood & Underwood files. Image of lower class apartments/tenements in NYC, people on the sidewalk.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label

Horace D. Ashton was one of the earliest professional photojournalists in the United States. In the first decade of the 1900s, he recorded a vast array of subjects, from tenement life in New York City (pictured here) to the first public flights of the Wright brothers. As an adventurer and writer in the 1920s, he made photographs around the world, from Africa to the Arctic, above the earth from a dirigible and underground in caves.

Provenance

George R. Rinhart, Palm Sprints, CA;
Purchased from George R. Rinhart by Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1994;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Keith F. Davis. An American Century of Photography: from Dry-Plate to Digital, New York: Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with H.N. Abrams, 1995, (repro).

Keith F. Davis. An American Century of Photography: from Dry-Plate to Digital, 2^nd edition, New York: Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with H.N. Abrams, 1995, 28 (repro).

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