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Photograph of a graffiti piece or 'burner' that reads "COCAINE" in the Fountainbleu penit, 1986. Called "Penit's" by graffiti writers in Miami, they are abandoned buildings where writers went to paint more indepth pieces, coined as "burners". This is an abandoned, unfinished building in the Fountainbleu area of Miami believed to have been constructed to be a penitentiary; hence the name 'penit'.

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Title
Cocaine Penit Burner
Contributor
Mero
Micro
Meen & Reech
Variant Title
Cocaine Fountainbleu Penit
Date
1986
Other Identifiers
local: Penit-Cocaine-Mero-1986.jpg
System Control No.
FI23071805_00001
Subject (Topic)
Graffiti
Street photography
Architecture
Credits
Vincent Nastasi digitized this item and prepared the accompanying metadata.
Coordinates
25.80122,-80.20065
Type
Image
Format
Photograph
Language
English
Physical Description
Museum of Graffiti
Note
MOG
Museum of Graffiti
Grant Information
This content is part of a Mellon Foundation-funded project coordinated by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) at FIU and eight community partner institutions titled “Community Data Curation: Preserving, Creating, and Narrating Everyday Stories.”
Standard Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Museum of Graffiti Collection > Museum of Graffiti
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