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Stieglitz, Alfred
American (1864-1946)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Mauretania

1910 / print ca. 1924-1934
gelatin silver print
11.6 x 9.3 cm.
Part purchase and part gift of An American Place, ex-collection Georgia O'Keeffe
GEH NEG: 37394
74:0052:0085

OLD GEH NUMBER: 2259-8
NON-GEH NUMBER: 124B

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Pollack, Peter. --The Picture History of Photography.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1958. p. 269.//
Norman, Dorothy. --Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1946.-- New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960. p. 14.//
Norman, Dorothy. --Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer.-- New York: 1973. pl. XIX.//

Stieglitz, Alfred, ed. --Camera Work--, No. 36 (October 1911). pl. 4.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Selections from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, September - December, 1987.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in pencil) "The Mauretania 1910" "4 (or H) (circled)" "124B" "D"

NOTES: Catalogued 6/87, DZ. The Mauretania and its sister ship the Lusitania were the biggest and fastest liners in the world when they were built in 1906. Later print date from National Gallery of Art.

SUBJECTS:
transportation, ocean liner / Mauretania
cityscape, harbor

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