Photographer Karl Struss (1886-1981) originally did this nighttime study of the Columbia University campus in 1910. Taken from the vantage point of Broadway, the view shows one of the large urns flanking a stairway with Earl Hall, designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White and originally built from 1900-02, at background left.

print notes recto: signed in graphite at lower left margin:    © Karl Struss 1910

-corner losses to tertiary cream-colored cardstock mount

print notes verso:  in graphite:  © not to be reproduced

black-ink hand-stamp to mount:

KARL  STRUSS
ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER
HOLLYWOOD    CALIFORNIA

blue ink:  Earle Hall,(sic) Columbia U.
Plat 1910

-various gallery marginalia stock #’s in graphite

provenance: Acquired 2017 from Los Angeles, CA party; former trust via public lien sale by succesor to G. Ray Hawkins Gallery.