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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991)
Hoboken Railroad Yard, New Jersey, 1935
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed later
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped photographer's 'Abbott, Maine' credit and titled 'Train Station', dated 'c. 1935' in pencil (mount, verso); credited, titled 'Train Station' and dated 'c. 1935' on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image/sheet: 7 5/8 x 13 3/8 in. (19.3 x 33.9 cm.)
mount: 14 x 17 in. (35.5 x 43.1 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by June Sidman, 1981.
Literature
Berenice Abbott, Photographs, Horizon Press, New York, 1970, p. 98.
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer, McGraw Hill, New York, 1982, pp. 120-121.
Cheryl Finley, Berenice Abbott, Commerce Graphics Ltd Inc., New Jersey. 1988, p. 7.
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott, Vol. 2, New York, Steidl, New York, 2008, p. 57.
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