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© Berenice Abbott. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colleg…
Con Edison Building
© Berenice Abbott. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, 1898 - 1991)
Date1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage (needs to be confirmed): 12 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (31.8 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Martina Hamilton, P1995, GP2022
Object number2022.14.2
Not on view
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Alternate Titles Consolidated Edison Power House, 666 First Avenue, Manhattan
Provenance 2018: on loan to Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum), promised gift of Martina Hamilton.
Signature Signed "Berenice Abbott" on verso at center in pencil.
© Berenice Abbott. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colleg…
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Date: 1936 (published 1979)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.14.1
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879-80
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Object number: 1998.6
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: published November 1858
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1928.25
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The Smith's Yard
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895 (published February 15, 1897)
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1928.26
Little Putney, No. 1
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1995.64
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Unknown artist
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Paul Almasy
Date: 1960-1969
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.174
Builders and doctors in Brasilia: Brasilia, the most modern capital city in the world has 65,000 inhabitants in 1959. Today, its population totals 250,000. In three years this figure will increase to 500,000. Since the first foundations were laid, builders and doctors worked closely together, first of all to see to it that the 60,000 workers who took part in building the new city stayed in good health, then to prevent the town from being invaded by the diseases of bush and forest. Immigrants' health is checked systematically on the road into Brasilia, while specialists study the flora and fauna of the environment in order to discover possible sources of dangerous diseases. Building sights in the center of town.
Builders and doctors in Brasilia: Brasilia, the most modern capital city in the world has 65,000 inhabitants in 1959. Today, its population totals 250,000. In three years this figure will increase to 500,000. Since the first foundations were laid, builders and doctors worked closely together, first of all to see to it that the 60,000 workers who took part in building the new city stayed in good health, then to prevent the town from being invaded by the diseases of bush and forest. Immigrants' health is checked systematically on the road into Brasilia, while specialists study the flora and fauna of the environment in order to discover possible sources of dangerous diseases. Building sights in the center of town.
Paul Almasy
Date: ca. 1960s
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.176
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Edward Quigley
Date: 1940
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Date: c. 1965
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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