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Guide to the Lorraine Forte Photographs
1968-1992
 PR 397

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Container List

[Catalog sheet 2 + prints]

Container 1 Container 2 Container 3 Title Date
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 11 EL TEDDY'S

Scope and Contents

"Teddy's history precedes and post dates itself."

[Tribeca mainstay restaurant El Teddy's was located at 219 West Broadway.]

1986
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 12 BILLBOARD

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"View from in back of a billboard looking south onto 9th Avenue."

1991
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 13 LOISAIDA FIREWORKS

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"View of fireworks in the East River looking north from rooftop."

1990
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 14 SQUARE

Scope and Contents

"Washington Square Park in the spring."

1986
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 15 HALLOWEEN

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"The Hell's Angels had a ritual of stringing skeletons across 3rd Street for Halloween. The brushwork in the sky is made by the quickly moving clouds during a time exposure."

[The Hells Angels vacated their longtime headquarters at 77 East 3rd Street, Manhattan, in 2019.]

1988
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 16 STOPLIGHT

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"View overlooking Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn."

1986
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 17 THEY'RE IN LOVE

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"Statues near Grand Army Plaza."

[The Bailey Fountain in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.]

1985
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 18 DISCO CARWASH

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"Carwash on Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn."

1984
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 19 MODERN AGE

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"Waiting for a movie to start at the Elgin Theater."

[After renovations, the Elgin Theater, at 175 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, reopened as the Joyce Theater in 1982.]

1971
Offsite-Box: 1 Folder : 2 Item : 20 PET SHOP

Scope and Contents

"This is a Yorkville pet shop window."

1971

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