Bread Store, 259 Bleecker Street (Primary Title)
Changing New York (Primary Title)
Berenice Abbott, American, 1898–1991 (Artist)
Unsigned
Photographer's stamp in brown ink on print verso and later crossed through with an "x" in graphite: “photograph / berenice abbott / 50 commerce st. / new york city”
Title, number, code, and date inscribed in graphite on print verso: "Bread Store/ Bleeker[sic] St. #259 / Neg. 199 - Code III - .A-1 / Feb. 3, 1937"
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
"Masterpieces of Photography from the Permanent Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: The First Hundred Years, 1839-1939", VMFA, November 6, 2020 - May 23, 2021
"Art of the 30's," artmobile exhibition, January 1980 - June 1981.
"Art of the 30's," artmobile exhibition, January 1980 - June 1981.
Sotheby’s New York auction catalogue, Sale N07850, 23 October 2002, “Berenice Abbott’s New York: Photographs from The Museum of the City of New York,” pp. 9 -11, for guide to Abbott’s paper and stamps.
Yochelson, Bonnie. “Berenice Abbott: Changing New York” (New York: The New Press / The Museum of the City of New York, 1997).
Yochelson, Bonnie. “Berenice Abbott: Changing New York” (New York: The New Press / The Museum of the City of New York, 1997).
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