mounted, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed credit, title, and process and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1948, printed no later than 1957 (Eye That Shapes, p. 166)

Acquired from the photographer in September 1957 for the Library Collection

This print, trimmed to the image, is in generally excellent condition. The lower left corner is slightly lifting from the mount, and there is a small crack in the emulsion along the left edge of the print. The front and reverse of the mount is lightly soiled with fingerprints. The mount is hinged to a window mat with 2 pieces of cloth tape along the upper edge of the reverse; there are also 2 remnants of cloth tape hinges along the lower edge of the reverse.
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