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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/The Letterbox/1894, printed 1929/1934,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35307 (accessed March 27, 2023).

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 181.

For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 123, folder 2462

Inscription

by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: F

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names
O'Keeffe, Georgia
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 184.
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