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BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) VISTA FROM WEST STREET negative number

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BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) VISTA FROM WEST STREET negative number
BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) VISTA FROM WEST STREET negative number "288" etched in negative border Federal Art Project stamp in black ink on verso stamp filled out by Abbott in pencil: "Title: Vista from West Street, 115-119 West Street", "Place: Manhattan", "Neg #: 288", "Code: [illegible]", "Date: March 23, 1938" vintage gelatin silver print 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (19.4 x 24.4 cm) March 23, 1938 PROVENANCE Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Bonnie Yochelson, BERENICE ABBOTT: CHANGING NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1997, p. 136, Lower West Side section, pl. 12 (illustrated) The nineteenth-century buildings in the foreground of this picture remained intact for over thirty years beyond the date of Abbott's photograph. They were torn down in the 1970s to make way for the World Trade Center.
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