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Teeming with meticulously recorded detail, this print depicts a massive construction site in the midst of a city. The large hole of the site consumes the majority of the lower two-thirds of the image; the upper portion consists of roads and buildings. Scaffolding and building materials extrude from the site into the air. <br />
Signed on plate, recto, l.r.: "Muirhead Bone"<br />
Signed below platemark, recto, in pencil: "Muirhead Bone".
Sir Muirhead Bone (British (modern))
Manhattan Excavation
1923 – 1928
Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
1988/2.23

Joseph LeBoit (American (North American))
Paving
1937
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
1943.75
This photograph depicts a view of the construction site of a large building. There are piles of materials, two towering cranes and a view of other buildings in the background.
Garry Winogrand (American (North American))
Toronto
1969
Gift of Stanley T. Lesser, A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953
1981/2.65.10
This photograph depicts a scene at a crowded political demonstration in a city. The crowd is waving flags and signs, and a reporter is extending a microphone to a yelling man wearing a construction hardhat.
Garry Winogrand (American (North American))
New York City
1970
Gift of Stanley T. Lesser, A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953
1981/2.65.5
Interior view of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
Berenice Abbott (American (North American))
Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan
1935 – 1939
Gift of Mrs. Ursula R. Freimarck through the Friends of the Museum of Art
1971/2.127
This is a photograph of the mid-late 1930s construction of the Rockefeller Center AP Building in Manhattan.
Paul J. Woolf (American (North American))
Rockefeller Center—Construction of the AP Building
1937
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
2000/2.146
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