Research Catalog

Photographs of New York City including Greenwich Village, SoHo, Gramercy, the Lower East Side and one unidentified cityscape

Title
  1. Photographs of New York City including Greenwich Village, SoHo, Gramercy, the Lower East Side and one unidentified cityscape [graphic] / Berenice Abbott.
Published by
  1. 1929-ca. 1959.
Author
  1. Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991.

Details

Additional authors
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
  1. 20 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 43.5 x 33.1 and smaller.
Summary
  1. Views principally of New York City's Greenwich Village (14) but including SoHo (south of Houston Street)(2), Gramercy (2), the Lower East Side (2) and one unidentified cityscape.
Subject
  1. Lafayette Hotel
  2. Antique dealers
  3. Architectural decorations & ornaments
  4. Architectural elements
  5. Architectural sculpture
  6. Automobiles
  7. Board games
  8. Buses
  9. Business enterprises
  10. Cafes
  11. Children
  12. City & town life
  13. Courtyards
  14. Doors & doorways
  15. Drugstores
  16. Dwellings
  17. Eating & drinking
  18. Elevated railroads
  19. Food vendors
  20. Hotels, taverns, etc
  21. Light fixtures
  22. Monuments & memorials
  23. Parks
  24. Passageways
  25. Pharmaceutical industry
  26. Rain and rainfall
  27. Residential streets
  28. Restaurants
  29. Saddlery shops
  30. Scales
  31. Seafood stores
  32. Signs
  33. Streets
  34. Tableware
  35. Trees
  36. Waiters
  37. Washington Arch
  38. Window displays
  39. Windows
  40. Women
  41. Gramercy (New York, N.Y.)
  42. Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
  43. Jefferson Market
  44. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
  45. New York (N.Y.)
  46. SoHo (New York, N.Y.)
  47. Washington Square (New York, N.Y.)
Genre/Form
  1. Cityscapes.
  2. Interiors.
  3. Portraits.
  4. Photographic prints.
  5. Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Call number
  1. MFZ (Abbott) 93-6248
Note
  1. Title devised by cataloger.
  2. Collection stamps, paper labels, verso.
  3. Photographer's stamps, verso.
  4. Some titles inscribed in pencil or ink, verso.
  5. Photographs in this series were NOT taken for the WPA\FAP "Changing New York" project.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Cite as (note)
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Provenance (note)
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Author
  1. Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991. Photographer
Title
  1. Photographs of New York City including Greenwich Village, SoHo, Gramercy, the Lower East Side and one unidentified cityscape [graphic] / Berenice Abbott.
Imprint
  1. 1929-ca. 1959.
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite as:
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding aids
  1. Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Added author
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Research call number
  1. MFZ (Abbott) 93-6248
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