Talman Street #57-61, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Berenice Abbott, American, 1898 - 1991

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1936

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a bequest from Lulu C. and Robert L. Coller, Class of 1923

© Berenice Abbott/Commerce Graphics

PH.988.37

Geography

Place Imaged: Brooklyn, United States, North America

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Course History

COLT 10.21, Coming to America, Gerd Gemunden, Spring 2019

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

GEOG 25, Social Justice and the City, Erin Collins, Fall 2021

Exhibition History

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

America's Great Depression; Through the Eyes of Three Women Photographers, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-August 2010.

Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.

Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Women Photographers at the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12-September 19, 2004.

Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-June 21, 1992.

Publication History

Barbara MacAdam, "Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1992, no.1.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 177, no. 147.

Provenance

G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1988.

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