The Old Print Shop

Advertisements: 1937.

  • ARTIST: Berenice Abbott

  • MEDIUM: Vintage silver gelatin photograph,

    DATE: 1937.

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

  • DESCRIPTION: Printed on heavy paper c.1937. Inscribed on verso "Advertisements: 1937 : East Houston Street and 2nd Avenue : Northeast Corner, Manhattan : [Neg #] 205 : [Code] III.I : Feb. 11, 1937." Stamped with artist's name on verso. The location of the billboards was on the Houston Street facade of 14 Second Avenue.

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

  • CONDITION: Good condition.

  • REFERENCE: Yochelson LES #28.