Light Effect: Pennsylvania Railroad Station

Light Effect: Pennsylvania Railroad Station

Cabdrivers stand outside their cabs waiting for fares at the old Pennsylvania Railroad Station (Penn Station) in New York City, in July, 1924.

Title
Light Effect: Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Photographer
Medium
Year
Dimensions

Image Dimensions18.6 x 24.1 cm

Support DimensionsDetail: 21.5 x 26.0 cm | 32.8 x 38.0 cm

Print Notes

Recto: Signed by the artist with his black ink stamp in script, LR corner of primary mount: Hellmuth; titled in graphite on secondary mount, presumably in artists hand:

Light Effect Penn. RR. Station
Chas. A. Hellmuth

Verso: black ink stamp:

Chas. A. Hellmuth
338 W. 22nd St.,
New York

-pasted white label (12.7 x 7.5 cm) for:

Prize Photo Contest
CHAS. G. WILLOUGHBY, Inc.

Class:  C
Name: Chas. A. Hellmuth.
Address: 338 W. 22nd St.
New York City.
Title: Light Effect Penn. RR. Station.
Date Taken: July
Where Taken: N.Y. City.
Camera Used: Ensign Reflex.
Make of Lens: Dallmeyer 6 in.
Make of Film: Eastman Film Pack.
Make of Plate: —
Exposure: 1/25  Stop: 5.6
Paper and Printing Process: P.M.C. #8
Filter Used: —

State Specifically What Part of the Work was done by the Entrant.:  All work by Chas. A. Hellmuth. (Signature.)
Contest Closes October 31, 1924.
Form B

-number 4 in graphite (4rth place?) appears in upper right corner of label
79 in thick graphite appears in upper left corner of mount

Provenance

Purchased for this archive in July, 2012 from dealer in Hilton, N.Y. who conducted an estate clean-out of former Rochester, N.Y. home of Joseph Foote Hellmuth, the son of artist Charles A. Hellmuth.