Todd Webb

Grand St. El Station, New York
1946

Black and white photograph of the Grand St. elevated train station in New York from 1946, showing curving tracks, a wooden platform, and vintage street lamps, with city buildings in the background shrouded in a light haze.
Black and white photograph of the Grand St. elevated train station in New York from 1946, showing curving tracks, a wooden platform, and vintage street lamps, with city buildings in the background shrouded in a light haze.

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Date
1946

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 13/16in. (35.2 × 27.5 cm) Image: 13 1/16 × 10 1/16in. (33.2 × 25.6 cm)

Accession number
2020.216

Edition
Edition unknown

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Howard Greenberg

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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