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B&W photo of apartment building at 61-63 Corbin Avenue, Jersey City.

Photograph
A woman with a baby carriage and a child wearing shorts stand on the sidewalk. The transom window above the entrance reads: Colonade. Circa 1930s-1940s automobiles are parked along the curb.

2023.011.0113

Gelatin Print - silver bromide

Apartment building; Spanish Colonial Revival features; rectangular plan; 4 stories plus raised basement; 6 bays except 7 bays on first floor; brick façade; single, double and triple 3/1 sash windows except entry bay; flat roof; brick arcaded cornice; Spanish tiled shed roof parapet flanked by stepped gables terminating in keystone arches; arched window heads, header brick lintels and stone sills; central steel and glass double-door entrance with transom window and arched soldier brick surround; fire escape; stone sill course on second floor with crest-shaped ornamentation above the entrance.

Jersey City, NJ

2023.011

John Amato

Donation

circa 1930 - circa 1970

Inscription

Back of print

61-63 Corbin Ave. Jersey City, N.J.

Typewritten

Inscription

Back of print

CB2012 48 3/4

Handwritten

Inscription

Back of print

CB2012

Stamp

B&W photo of apartment building at 61-63 Corbin Avenue, Jersey City. picture number 1
B&W photo of apartment building at 61-63 Corbin Avenue, Jersey City. picture number 2