mounted, signed in pencil, the photographer's '2279 - 40th Avenue, San Francisco 16, Calif.' studio stamp and a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed title, credit, and process and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1947, printed no later than 1957 (California Photographs, p. 89)

Acquired from the photographer in May 1957 for the Library Collection

This print, on paper with a slight surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. When examined in raking light, several tiny deposits of original retouching are visible. The mount is very slightly age-darkened, and the lower right corner is creased. A mat has been affixed with two pieces of cloth tape attached on the reverse.
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Another print of this image, in the collection of Paul Hertzmann and Susan Herzig, bears the alternative title, 'Outside Ansel Adams's Darkroom, San Francisco.'