| Artist |
Berenice Abbott
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| Title | Court of the First Model Tenement in NYC, New York IV Portfolio |
| Keywords | New York, Documentary, Laundry |
| Medium | Silver Gelatin |
| Negative Date | March 16, 1936 |
| Print Date | 1979 |
| Image Size | 18 3/4 x 15 1/4 |
| Paper Size | 15 1/4 x 18 3/4 |
| Edition | 21/60 |
| Signed | Au recto Mount Pencil |
| List Price | 5500 |
| ItemNo | BA-1241 |
| About |
361-365 71st Street, 1325-1343 First Avenue, and 360-364 72nd Street, Manhattan. Built: 1882. Architects: Vaux & Radford. The decade 1880-1890 saw the model tenement movement arise in the Improved Dwellings Association and the Tenement House Building Company. The minimum specifications of sixty years ago are no longer model, in fact, they verge on illegality. But at the time of their erection, these buildings represented a definite advance toward the humane in New Yorks still present housing problems.
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