Berenice Abbott
2-4-6 Minetta Street, Manhattan

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Artist Berenice Abbott American, 1898–1991

CultureAmerican

Titles

2-4-6 Minetta Street, Manhattan
from the series Changing New York

Date1935

PlaceNew York, New York, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (18.4 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (18.4 × 24.1 cm)
Mount: 9 1/2 × 14 1/8 in. (24.1 × 35.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.512

Not on view

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Photography

Special Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenanceex-collectionThe New York Public Library;
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in, "American Vision: Photographers from the East, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-December 29, 2003.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Stamped in black, verso of mount, lower left: "The New York / Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation / Withdrawn from / the Collections"

Typed on white sheet, affixed to verso of mount: "2-4-6 Minetta Street, west side, between Sixth / Avenue and Minetta Lane, built between 1800 and 1807, / problably the homes of artisans excluded from the then / fashionable Varick Street. Occupied by ragpickers in / early 1900's. Restored in 1913. No's 2 and 6 were / remodelled in 1924. Demolished in 1936. Reproduced / on page 106 of the published volume 'Changing New York.' / November 21, 1935 / Berenice Abbott / Federal Art Project / NO REPRODUCTIONS"

Inscribed on this same white sheet affixed to the verso of the mount: "NYPL dupl gs."

Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, lower right: "BA-3NY"

Inscribed in black, recto of mount, above center of sheet: "Minetta St. No. 2,4,6"

The photograph is unsigned.

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