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1977

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1981

  • We acquired this object.

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Poster, Subways

This is a Poster. It was made for (as the client) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. It is dated 1977 and we acquired it in 1981. Its medium is lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Various Donors.

Its dimensions are

114.3 × 75.6 cm (45 × 29 3/4 in.)

It is signed

Printed in red, lower right: Samuel Lebowitz Design

It is inscribed

Printed in red, upper right: SUBWAYS / presented by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum / an exhibition, on the mezzanine level of the 42nd Street/6th Avenue subway station, December 8, 1977-February 28, 1978; lower left: Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Urban Mass Transportation Administration

Cite this object as

Poster, Subways; Client: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (United States); USA; lithograph on paper; 114.3 × 75.6 cm (45 × 29 3/4 in.); Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-37

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