Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[View of Easton, Pennsylvania] (variant)

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Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
[View of Easton, Pennsylvania] (variant), 1935
Postcard format gelatin silver print; 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (8.6 x 13.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991 (1991.1076)

Front Street, Looking North, Morgan City, LA

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Unknown artist
Front Street, Looking North, Morgan City, LA, 1929
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (8.9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.107.188)

[Street Scene, Morgan City, Louisiana]

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Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
[Street Scene, Morgan City, Louisiana], 1935
Film negative; 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.258.499)

[Detail of Penny Picture Display, Savannah]

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Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
[Detail of Penny Picture Display, Savannah], 1936
Postcard format gelatin silver print; 3 7/16 x 5 3/8 in. (8.7 x 13.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991 (1996.165.1)

Tennessee Coal, Iron, & R. R. Co.'s Steel Mills, Ensley, Ala.

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Unknown artist
Tennessee Coal, Iron, & R. R. Co.'s Steel Mills, Ensley, Ala., 1920s
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (8.9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.10.2)

Main Street, Showing Confederate Monument, Lenoir, N. C.

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Unknown artist
Main Street, Showing Confederate Monument, Lenoir, N. C., 1930s
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (8.9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.107.648)

R. R. Station, South Coventry, Conn.

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Unknown artist
R. R. Station, South Coventry, Conn., 1930s
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.1.15)

Santa Fe Station and Yards, San Bernardino, Calif.

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Unknown artist
Santa Fe Station and Yards, San Bernardino, Calif., ca. 1910
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.1.2)

Birds Eye View of Lincoln, Neb.

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Unknown artist
Birds Eye View of Lincoln, Neb., ca. 1906
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.15.4)

Future New York, The City of Skyscrapers

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Unknown artist
Future New York, The City of Skyscrapers, 1910s
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.20.2)

Men's Bathing Department, Bath House, Hot Springs National Park, Ark.

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Unknown artist
Men's Bathing Department, Bath House, Hot Springs National Park, Ark., 1920s
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.24.5)

Woolworth and Municipal Buildings from Brooklyn Bridge, New York

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Unknown artist
Woolworth and Municipal Buildings from Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1910s
Postcard, Photomechanical reproduction; 3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (9 x 14 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Walker Evans Archive, 1994 (1994.264.38.3)

Stable, Natchez, Mississippi

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Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
Stable, Natchez, Mississippi, March 1935
Gelatin silver print; 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005 (2005.100.553)

View of Ossining, New York

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Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
View of Ossining, New York, 1930–31
Gelatin silver print; 4 1/8 x 7 13/16 in. (10.5 x 19.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1999 (1999.20.1)