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Ray Platnick

Child Care Center in NYC,

Maker

  • Ray Platnick

Title

Child Care Center in NYC

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • gelatin silver print

Techniques

  • gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Sheet: 20.1 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription: Verso: UL: rubber stamped in black ink: “CULVER PICTURES, INC / [illegible] West 22nd Street / Suite 300 / New York, [?] New York 10011 / (212) 645-1672”, beneath: rubber stamped in black in: “This picture is loaned for one / reproduction only. Must not be used for / advertising without written permission. / Original must be returned within 20 days / Obligatory Credit Line / CULVER PICTURES”, beneath, upside down and partially covered: rubber stamped in black ink: a box with fields to be filled in this order, top to bottom, left to right: [covered/unreadable], Page, Width, Page Slug, Day, Depth; across center: printed material pasted on sheet: “This is the project’s ‘parking service’ for children too young to go to school. If a mother want to go shopping, she / can leave her children here between 9 and noon free of charge. The children play games and sing songs in one of / the recreation rooms. The mothers take turns minding them.”, left of BC: rubber stamped in black ink upside down: “PM [contained in one cell to left] / PHOTOGRAPHY BY / RAY PLATNICK” [contained in second cell to right]; right of CT: inscribed in graphite: “SCHOOLS: [a line goes vertical before the S and the curves to underline the word] Nursery + Kindergarten; UR: rubber stamped in black ink: “USED / MAR 19 1942; LR quadrant: inscribed in green ink: “Housing [circled] South Jamaica”; bottom edge, right of center: printed in black ink on remains of sticker, text is mirrored: “FORM A17-10-M-1-42 [scratched out mark] 34”; LR: rubber stamped in black ink: “047436”

Type

  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Richard and Andrea Kremer

Object Number

2022.109.5

Child Care Center in NYC

Inscription: Verso: UL: rubber stamped in black ink: “CULVER PICTURES, INC / [illegible] West 22nd Street / Suite 300 / New York, [?] New York 10011 / (212) 645-1672”, beneath: rubber stamped in black in: “This picture is loaned for one / reproduction only. Must not be used for / advertising without written permission. / Original must be returned within 20 days / Obligatory Credit Line / CULVER PICTURES”, beneath, upside down and partially covered: rubber stamped in black ink: a box with fields to be filled in this order, top to bottom, left to right: [covered/unreadable], Page, Width, Page Slug, Day, Depth; across center: printed material pasted on sheet: “This is the project’s ‘parking service’ for children too young to go to school. If a mother want to go shopping, she / can leave her children here between 9 and noon free of charge. The children play games and sing songs in one of / the recreation rooms. The mothers take turns minding them.”, left of BC: rubber stamped in black ink upside down: “PM [contained in one cell to left] / PHOTOGRAPHY BY / RAY PLATNICK” [contained in second cell to right]; right of CT: inscribed in graphite: “SCHOOLS: [a line goes vertical before the S and the curves to underline the word] Nursery + Kindergarten; UR: rubber stamped in black ink: “USED / MAR 19 1942; LR quadrant: inscribed in green ink: “Housing [circled] South Jamaica”; bottom edge, right of center: printed in black ink on remains of sticker, text is mirrored: “FORM A17-10-M-1-42 [scratched out mark] 34”; LR: rubber stamped in black ink: “047436”

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