Telephone and Telegraph Building

Object Details

Artist

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

The Telephone and Telegraph Building is seen in center, background, in the process of construction. At right, the towers of the Singer and Woolworth Buildings loom up behind the low roofs of the row of old buildings in the foreground.

Credit Line

Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt

1925

Accession Number

1951-48-2

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

architecture

Object Name

Print

Type

Print

Medium

Etching in brown ink on paper

Dimensions

Platemark: 24.9 × 30.1 cm (9 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

Sheet: 29.1 × 37.9 cm (11 7/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

place depicted

New York, NY, USA

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Record ID

chndm_1951-48-2

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq494ee7593-50be-47cf-91f5-109790cf2d07