mounted, titled and numbered '69W P30' by the photographer, and numbered and annotated in unidentified hands, in pencil, and with a typed label, quoting Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, on the reverse, 1941

This print, on cool white paper with a slight surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. In raking light the following are visible: a 1 1/8-inch vertical scratch at the bottom edge, that slightly breaks the emulsion; a couple of very faint impressions; a small circular area in the upper left quadrant where the print has been rubbed; and very faint silvering along the edges of the print. The cream-colored mount, with a smooth surface on both sides, has some very light surface soiling and minor foxing on the front and back. On the back the top right and bottom corners have small remnants of linen tape. The mount is annotated and numbered '29A' (circled), Z 1126' (circled), 'V32,' UAS,' '821,' and '2500' in an unidentified hand in pencil.
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The typed label on the reverse indicates that this print was sent to the publisher for possible inclusion in the Limited Editions Club 1942 illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.  Altho🥀ugh this image never appeared in the pub꧃lished volume, this print may have been used in the book's maquette.

The label reads:

'Song of Myself:

#8) ((passage on "blab of the pave"))

   "What lꦏiving and buried speech is always vibrating here,".............🅠............................W 69'