Henri Cartier-Bresson
2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore

2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore

© Henri Cartier-Bresson/ Magnum Photos

2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore
2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore
CultureFrench
Titles
  • 2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore
  • from the series The Galveston That Was
Date1962
Place depictedGalveston, Texas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (30.3 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (32.4 × 24 cm)
Credit LineMuseum commission
Object number65.222
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: " The Galveston That Was," Centre on the Strand, Galveston, TX, Sep 21 - Dec 15 1971 (LN:71.10)

Exhibited: "Victorian Galveston: An Architectural Portrait," Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Nov 29, 1990 - Jan 14, 1991 (LN:90.30)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on verso, upper left corner in pencil: "43" [x'd out in green pencil], center: "7715-22", "76 ½", in red pencil: "30" [circled], in green pencil: "p. 69"
recto top left in pencil "30", erased crop marks
On verso: brown stamp in outlined box: "Photograph by/Henri Cartier-Bresson/©1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS/15 West 47th Street, N.Y.C. 36". Red stamp: "N.Y. Times / Book Review // __ cols. ____" [the following information was penciled in: "# / p-58 / 3 5/8 x 5 9/16"]

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