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Jack Kerouac, New York

Artist Allen Ginsberg (American ; 1926-1997)
Copy Right Holder Allen Ginsberg Trust
Copy Right Holder Corbis
Date1953
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PHOTO
Credit LineMuseum purchase, John B. Turner '24 Memorial Fund
Terms
  • figure
  • street scene
  • text
Object numberM.2003.29.3
InscribedSigned in lower margin: Jack Kerouac passing statue of Samuel Cox, Tomkins Square Park Lower East Side Manhattan, walking west up East 7th Street from my apartment toward corner of Avenue A and Leshko's Ukranian Restaurant-he's making a Dostosevsky madface Russian basso Bebop"om!"-we were just wandering around the subterranean neighborhood, Fall 1953. Allen Ginsberg
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