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A black-and-white photograph of a man wearing a driving cap sitting on a steel beam high above a large city.
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The Bolter Up - Empire State Building [Self-portrait]

Charles Rivers (1904-1993)

Object Details

  • Date

    1930

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    5 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Verso:

    u.c. [typed on paper label]: THE BOLTERUP \ An ironworker bolting up tight \ loose connections in order that the \ riverters that followed would do \ their work more expeditiously. \ Empire State Building \ 1930

    u.c. under paper label, in ink: [illeg.]

    c. signed in ink: Charles Rivers

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the artist

  • Accession Number

    P1986.24.10

  • Copyright

    © Charles Rivers

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