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Feininger, Andreas
American (b. France, 1906-1999)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Staten Island ferry
PUBLISHED TITLE: Staten Island ferry pulling into Battery slip

1940
gelatin silver print
33.8 x 27.2 cm.
Gift of the photographer
78:0606:0079

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 825 / 28-1

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Feininger, Andreas. --New York in the Forties.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. p. 38.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Life Photo By Andreas Feininger" (signed) "A. Feininger" (monogram) "AF" (in pencil) "825 (circled)" "28-1 (circled)" (in red pencil) (sizing measurements "8 3/4" "10 1/2"

copyright, LIFE Magazine/Andreas Feininger

NOTES: Catalogued 3/94, DZ. "The "monogram" is a symbolic abbreviation of the letters A and F. I use it for identifying prints which I consider good enough for exhibition purposes." [Andreas Feininger, 3/14/94] Descriptive title and date from the photographer, 4/94.

SUBJECTS:
transportation, ferry boat
architecture, dock
transportation, automobiles
people, on boat

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