John Albok
Best & Co.

Best & Co.
Best & Co.
Best & Co.
ArtistAmerican, born Hungary, 1894–1982
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Best & Co.
Date1930s
Place depictedNew York, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 3/16 × 10 1/8 in. (33.5 × 25.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores, by exchange; The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2817
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Lower left corner, verso: "MH43"; lower right corner: "7055 400"
Stamped, verso, center of sheet: "John Albok, 1392 Madison Ave., N.Y., Tel. Atwater 9-4498"
In pencil, verso, center of sheet: "John Albok"

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

From the Window
John Albok
c. 1940
Gelatin silver print
86.452
Painter, 110th Street
John Albok
1934
Gelatin silver print
91.344
91.343
John Albok
1936
Gelatin silver print
91.343
Audubon Center in Greenwich, Fairfield Co., CT
John Yang
1979, printed 1980
Gelatin silver print
91.1278
Blue Mountain Reservation, Westchester Co., NY
John Yang
1979
Gelatin silver print
91.1279
The Best Circles
Allan Ludwig
1979
Gelatin silver print
91.848
Fur Hat at 10 Best Women's Luncheon
William Klein
1985
Gelatin silver print
86.236
Sunday Best, Philadelphia, PA
Marilyn Nance
1990
Gelatin silver print
94.598
Yosemite Valley from the “Best General View”
Carleton E. Watkins
1866
Albumen silver print
80.50
[Self-Portraits, Portraits of Co-workers, Scenes of Sailing and Swimming]
Unknown
possibly 1930s
Album of gelatin silver prints
2020.137.61
[Photographic Identification Badge from The Hoover Co., Zanesville, O.]
Unknown American
1922–1960
Gelatin silver print mounted on celluloid and metallic button
2020.137.91.27