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Lot Essay
Marsh had a studio on 14th Street near Union Square from which he could observe the urban hub-bub as it was evolving in 1920s and 1930s New York. Coney Island was in fact a venue only recently available to working-class New Yorkers via the subway connection of Manhattan to Brooklyn in 1915. The merry-go-round at Coney Island opened in 1906 and still runs today; it was a signature attraction at the Luna Park amusement park.
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Condition report
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In addition to the catalogue description, with margins (the sheet unevenly trimmed), pale light-staining, pale surface soiling in places in the margins, hinge remains in places on the reverse upper sheet edge (slightly showing through)