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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/The Letterbox/1894, printed 1897,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35305 (accessed November 21, 2024).

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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.

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, upper left, printed in black ink: COPYRIGHT 1895 BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ

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. 183.

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