Shelter on the Water Front, Coenties Slip, Pier 5, East River, Manhattan

1938

photograph | gelatin silver print

Not currently on view in the museum

Shelter on the Water Front, Coenties Slip, Pier 5, East River, Manhattan

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9 1/2 in. x 7 1/8 in. (24.13 cm x 18.1 cm)

Acquired 1971

Collection SFMOMA

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71.38.5

Keywords

shacks, homeless people, windows, tarpaper, men, cityscapes, buildings, rooftops, New York

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