The Old Print Shop

Brooklyn Facade. (Columbia Heights).

  • ARTIST: Berenice Abbott

  • MEDIUM: Vintage silver gelatin photograph,

    DATE: 1936.

  • EDITION SIZE: 8 x 10" (20.3 x 25.3 cm) contact print.

  • DESCRIPTION: Printed on heavy paper c.1936. Inscribed on verso "Brooklyn Facade. : 65-71 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. : May 14 1936 : [Neg #] 175 [Code] I.A.3." Stamped with artist's name verso. The houses were demolished in 1950 for the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Stamped on verso "Federal Art Project 'Changing New York' photographs by Berenice Abbott" in brown ink.

  • CONDITION: Good condition.

  • REFERENCE: Yochelson OB #36.