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Abbott, Berenice
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2013.018.001
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1936-05-12
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2013.018.028
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1932
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1954
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2013.018.050
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1935
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Smoke Stacks, Red River Logging, California
2013.018.056
Abbott, Berenice
1943
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Men At The Fair, Maine
2013.018.069
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1967
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Under The El At The Battery, New York
2013.018.078
Abbott, Berenice
1936
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2013.018.080
Abbott, Berenice
1936
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Pendulum Motion and Galileo
2010.022.005
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Periodic Straight Waves
2010.022.010
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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An Interference Pattern
2010.022.034
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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[Unknown RCA]
2012.041.004
Abbott, Berenice
1939
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["Hamilton Watch Interior"]
2012.041.007
Abbott, Berenice
1944
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[Hand with Hammer]
2012.041.010
Abbott, Berenice
1945
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[unknown magnet] (hanging cylinder)
2012.041.033
Abbott, Berenice
1940s-1950s
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["Supersight, Ore"]
2012.041.036
Abbott, Berenice
mid 1940s-early 1950s
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["Supersight, Ear of Corn"]
2012.041.040
Abbott, Berenice
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Pingpank Barber Shop, New York
2013.018.003
Abbott, Berenice
1938-05-18
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2013.018.009
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Department of Docks Building, Pier A, New York
2013.018.014
Abbott, Berenice
1936-05-05
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Eugene Atget, Profile, Paris
2013.018.018
Abbott, Berenice
1927
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Fifth Avenue, Nos. 4, 6, 8, New York
2013.018.021
Abbott, Berenice
1936-03-20
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Melbourne Hotel, Florida
2013.018.038
Abbott, Berenice
1936
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Murray Hill Hotel, New York
2013.018.041
Abbott, Berenice
1935-11-19
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Old Post Office And Trolley, New York
2013.018.046
Abbott, Berenice
1938-05-04
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Postcards, Florida
2013.018.048
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Princess Murat, Paris
2013.018.051
Abbott, Berenice
1929
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Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan, New York
2013.018.071
Abbott, Berenice
1935-10-03
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Lyric Theatre, New York
2013.018.075
Abbott, Berenice
1936-04-24
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Warehouse, Water and Dock Streets, New York
2013.018.076
Abbott, Berenice
1936-05-22
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Hoboken Railroad Yards, Looking Towards Manhattan, New Jersey
2013.018.077
Abbott, Berenice
1935
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Theoline, Pier 11, East River, Manhattan, New York
2013.018.079
Abbott, Berenice
1936-04-09
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An Interference Pattern
2010.022.009
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Reflected Water Waves
2010.022.012
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Water Waves Produce Shadows
2010.022.016
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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["Mold"] (cheese)
2012.041.014
Abbott, Berenice
1946-1947
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[Magnet-stone]
2012.041.028
Abbott, Berenice
1940s-1963
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["Monopod Variation"]
2012.041.035
Abbott, Berenice
Late 1940s
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["Supersight, Fish head"]
2012.041.037
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1947
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["Steel Sphere"] (Gravitational Shaped Space)
2012.041.043
Abbott, Berenice
1969
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John V. Lacey, Birdsmith, New York
2013.018.006
Abbott, Berenice
1948 circa
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Cheese Store, 276 Bleecker Street, New York
2013.018.010
Abbott, Berenice
1937-02-02
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Eugene Atget, Front View, Paris
2013.018.017
Abbott, Berenice
1927
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Manhattan Bridge, Looking Up, New York
2013.018.037
Abbott, Berenice
1936
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Old Man On Porch, Georgia
2013.018.045
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Rothman's Pawn Shop, New York
2013.018.053
Abbott, Berenice
1938-05-18
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Soap Bubbles, New York
2013.018.057
Abbott, Berenice
1946
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Gasoline Station, Tremont Avenue and Dock Street, Bronx, New York
2013.018.059
Abbott, Berenice
1936-07-02
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Tri-Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery, Manhattan, New York
2013.018.062
Abbott, Berenice
1935-10-24
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Wave Pattern With Glass Plate, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013.018.064
Abbott, Berenice
1958 circa
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Gasoline Station, Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan, New York
2013.018.067
Abbott, Berenice
1935-12-23
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Portrait of Norbert Wiener
2013.018.082
Abbott, Berenice
1960 circa
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Circular Wave System
2010.022.008
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Focusing Water Waves
2010.022.014
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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"Hands and Suds" (Soap Properties)
2012.041.012
Abbott, Berenice
1944
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["Circuit"]
2012.041.017
Abbott, Berenice
1958-1961
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["Sprout"] (grain of corn)
2012.041.019
Abbott, Berenice
1948
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["Plants"]
2012.041.021
Abbott, Berenice
1939
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["Electricity Tower"]
2012.041.023
Abbott, Berenice
1940s
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["Supersight, Fish Tail"]
2012.041.038
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1947
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[Spring]
2012.041.049
Abbott, Berenice
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American Shops, New Jersey
2013.018.002
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Children At The Fair, Maine
2013.018.011
Abbott, Berenice
1937-02-02
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2013.018.015
Abbott, Berenice
1948 circa
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2013.018.026
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1938-01-26
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2013.018.044
Abbott, Berenice
1967
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Saints For Sale, New York
2013.018.054
Abbott, Berenice
1934 circa
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Brooklyn Bridge, Pier 21, New York
2013.018.070
Abbott, Berenice
1937-03-23
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Saints for Sale, New York
2013.018.073
Abbott, Berenice
1934
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Grain of corn
2013.018.083
Abbott, Berenice
1948
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A Bouncing Ball in Diminishing Arcs
2010.022.002
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Falling Bodies Fall at Same Speed
2010.022.003
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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The Realities of Nature
2010.022.006
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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What is a Rainbow?
2010.022.030
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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NY at Night
2012.041.001
Abbott, Berenice
1934
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["Winding a Watch"]
2012.041.008
Abbott, Berenice
1944
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["Vacuum Tube"]
2012.041.016
Abbott, Berenice
1958-1961
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["Bug on a leaf"]
2012.041.018
Abbott, Berenice
1948
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The Early Light Bulbs, Edison Laboratory, NJ
2012.041.025
Abbott, Berenice
1940s-1950s
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"Magnetism with Key"
2012.041.029
Abbott, Berenice
1958-1961
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["Magnetic field pattern with long straight wire"]
2012.041.031
Abbott, Berenice
1958-1961
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Berenice Abbott [setting copystand mound in preparation for a shoot]
2012.041.046
unknown
ca. 1959
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[Portrait of Norbert Wiener]
2012.041.053
Abbott, Berenice
1960
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Flatiron Building, New York
2013.018.022
Abbott, Berenice
1938-05-18
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John Wanamaker, New York
2013.018.031
Abbott, Berenice
1933
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John Watts Statue from Trinity Courtyard, New York
2013.018.032
Abbott, Berenice
1938-03-01
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Miliken's General Store On Sunday Morning, Bridgewater, Maine
2013.018.039
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Treasury Building, New York
2013.018.061
Abbott, Berenice
1933
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Plants, Agricultural Study
2013.018.084
Abbott, Berenice
1939
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Conservation of Momentum in Spheres of Unequal Mass
2010.022.017
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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A Light Trace by Time Exposure
2010.022.025
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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The Operation of Lenses
2010.022.027
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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A Simple Electroscope
2010.022.029
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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["Unknown"] (IBM Laboratory)
2012.041.006
Abbott, Berenice
1944
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["Watch Bearings"]
2012.041.009
Abbott, Berenice
1944
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"Soap Bubbles"
2012.041.013
Abbott, Berenice
1946
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Bud on Leaf, vintage print
2012.041.020
Abbott, Berenice
1948
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["Muriel Rukeyser's Eye"]
2012.041.022
Abbott, Berenice
1940s
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[Unknown magnet]
2012.041.050
Abbott, Berenice
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Brooklyn Bridge, Pier 21, New York
2013.018.007
Abbott, Berenice
1937-03-23
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Country Store : Interior, 2553 Sage Place, Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York
2013.018.012
Abbott, Berenice
1935-10-11
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Ferry, Central Railroad of New Jersey
2013.018.020
Abbott, Berenice
1936-08-12
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Lyric Theater, New York
2013.018.036
Abbott, Berenice
1936-04-24
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Silky's Hot Dog Stand, Daytona Beach, Florida
2013.018.055
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Swinging Wrench, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013.018.058
Abbott, Berenice
1958
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Transformation Of Energy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013.018.060
Abbott, Berenice
1958
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Foundations of Rockefeller Center, New York
2013.018.074
Abbott, Berenice
1932
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Circular Wave Systems
2010.022.007
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Water Waves Pattern (The length of waves)
2010.022.013
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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Water Waves Change Direction
2010.022.015
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Not the Music of Spheres
2010.022.018
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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Not the Music of Spheres
2010.022.019
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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Light Passes through a Prism
2010.022.031
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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"Radio Tubes" (RCA Research Laboratory, Camden, NJ)
2012.041.002
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1939
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["Variation of 'Plant in a Jar'"]
2012.041.011
Abbott, Berenice
1939
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Beginning of a Battery
2012.041.026
Abbott, Berenice
Late 1940s
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["Invention by Abbott"]
2012.041.034
Abbott, Berenice
1948
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[Unknown] (multiple balls, star formation w/ hand)
2012.041.044
Abbott, Berenice
1969
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Broadway and Exchange Place, New York
2013.018.019
Abbott, Berenice
1932
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Floating Oyster Houses, South Street and Pike Slip, New York
2013.018.023
Abbott, Berenice
1936
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Refreshment Stand, Daytona Beach, Florida
2013.018.025
Abbott, Berenice
1954
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Lewis Hine, Dobbs Ferry, New York
2013.018.034
Abbott, Berenice
1938
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Multiple Exposure Of Swinging Ball, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013.018.040
Abbott, Berenice
1958 circa
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Newsstand, New York
2013.018.043
Abbott, Berenice
1935-11-19
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Under The El At The Battery, New York
2013.018.063
Abbott, Berenice
1936
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Portrait of Berenice Abbott
2013.018.081
Kanaga, Consuelo
1937
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The Parabolic Mirror has a Thousand Eyes
2010.022.001
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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The Pendulum Once More
2010.022.004
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Reflected Water Waves
2010.022.011
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Is Light a Particle Phenomenon?
2010.022.020
Abbott, Berenice
1958-61
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Illusion or Reality?
2010.022.028
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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Missing Title and Smithsonian catalogue number
2010.022.032
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1960
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["Lamps 1950s"] (RCA Research Laboratory, Camden, NJ)
2012.041.015
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1950s
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["Example of Static Electricity"]
2012.041.024
Abbott, Berenice
1958-1961
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["Magnetic Field"]
2012.041.030
Abbott, Berenice
1964
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["Capturing an Image"] (wire looped in coil)
2012.041.032
Abbott, Berenice
1964
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["Supersight, Penicillin"]
2012.041.039
Abbott, Berenice
1944-1946
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["Supersight, Moth Wing"]
2012.041.041
Abbott, Berenice
ca. 1947
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["Multiple Exposure Showing the Path of a Steel Ball Ejected Vertically from a Moving Object"]
2012.041.045
Abbott, Berenice
1959
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electroscope
2012.041.047
Abbott, Berenice
1947 or earlier
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[Photographing Illusion or Reality]
2012.041.052
Abbott, Berenice
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Barclay Street Station, New York
2013.018.005
Abbott, Berenice
1932 circa
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Cycloid, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013.018.013
Abbott, Berenice
1958 circa
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James Joyce, Paris
2013.018.030
Abbott, Berenice
1928
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Rope Store, Peerless Equipment Co., New York
2013.018.052
Abbott, Berenice
1938-05-03
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