Harlem Street: II, 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan, Berenice Abbott

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Berenice Abbott, Harlem Street: II, 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan
Berenice Abbott, Harlem Street: II, 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan
Berenice Abbott
Harlem Street: II, 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan
1938
Berenice Abbott
1898–1991
Harlem Street: II, 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan, 1938
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 177 x 224 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 15/16 x 8 13/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in
Credit line: Gift of the WPA Arts Project
Accession number: 0000.0115
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Exhibition Label: "Signs of Faith: Photographs from the Collection," Oct-2001, Elissa L.Anderson Abbott’s photograph is of a quintessential block in Harlem, comprising a church among many typical businesses, such as a barbershop and a grocery market. This combination of buildings suggests a community’s dependence on both sacred and secular realms. Abbott photographed this location on multiple occasions in the 1930s for the Federal Art Project in order to record the effect of the Great Depression on daily life in New York City.