New York City--Midwinter Nights, Night Life

Creator Ben Kocivar, John Vachon (1914-1975), Look magazine, Phillip Harrington

Accession number X2011.4.12237

Unique identifier MN1144123

Description Photographs of midwinter nightlife around the city. Depicts dinner parties; entertainment acts at nightclubs including Leon and Eddie's, Stork Club, Toots Shor, Blue Angel, and the Wedgwood Room at the Waldorf Astoria; a man and woman at an indoor swimming pool; a man and woman golfing at a driving range; a man and woman standing by the New York Public Library lion statues; and a group of women ice skating at the rink at Rockefeller Center. Date of assignment December 1949. Most contact prints are duplicates of negatives but there are unique images in each format. Negative frames: 1340, Contact print frames: 1116

Dated 1949

Object Type contact sheet, negative (photographic)

Physical dimensions Object Dimensions 4 x 5 in: Object Dimensions 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in: Object Dimensions 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in: Object Dimensions 1 x 1 1/2 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 9 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 7 1/2 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 6 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 4 1/2 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 3 in: Object Dimensions 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

Medium acetate negative, contact print

File dimensions 17.3 in × 18.3 in at 300dpi
44.1 cm × 46.5 cm at 300dpi

New York Public Library

Nightclubs

Nightlife

Rockefeller Center

Stork Club (New York, N.Y.)

Swimming pools

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.)

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