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Winter Comes to Manhattan

Bertram Brandt

Photography

MEDIUM Gelatin silver print
DATES November 15, 1949
DIMENSIONS image: 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (16.5 x 21 cm) sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 in. (18.4 x 22.9 cm)  (show scale)
MARKINGS Paper label on verso reads: 921580....New York Bureau Winter Comes to Manhattan New York: As Autumn turns to Winter, New York Becomes the jeweled city. Darkness comes early and people are still in their offices, as a result the skyscrapers are a blaze of light as the working day nears its close. ACME Photographer Bertram Brandt made this view looking south from the sixteenth floor ACME offices, catching the impressive Pennsylvania Station, Nov. 15. NY-1-2-3-4 FOR CREDIT (ACME) 11/17/49 (JB) Photograph is also stamped on verso in black ink and the date is stamped in red ink.
COLLECTIONS Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER 1990.242.2
CREDIT LINE Gift of Alan Schlussel
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION View of Penn Station
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Bertram Brandt (American, active 1970s). Winter Comes to Manhattan, November 15, 1949. Gelatin silver print, image: 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (16.5 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Alan Schlussel, 1990.242.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1990.242.2_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 1990.242.2_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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