unique Polaroid Type 52 print, dated and annotated in red ink and with the photographer's '72 North Union St., Rochester 7, N. Y.' studio stamp on the reverse, 1959; accompanied by a typed letter on Aperture letterhead from White to Miss Meroe Morse of Polaroid Corporation

Ansel Adams, Polaroid Land Photography, p. 89 (likely this print)

Other prints of this image (variant croppings):

Mirrors Messages Manifestations (Millerton, 1969), p. 40

Peter Bunnell, Minor White: The Eye That Shapes (Princeton, 1989), pl. 150

This Polaroid is in generally excellent condition. As is common of Polaroid prints, there is a slight unevenness to the generally glossy surface. In high raking light, a small handling crease that does not break the emulsion is visible just below the lower right edge of the image, as is a ½-inch linear impression in the upper left corner of the image. There are fingerprints in the lower print margin. On the reverse, White has dated and annotated this print '9 June 59' and 'Rochester, N. Y.,' respectively, in red pencil. The letter that accompanies this print is signed by White in red pencil. It is annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil: 'CC: Casselman, Keymont, Calderwood, Hooper.'
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The letܫter, dated 9 June 1959, that accompanies this photograph reads:

'Dear Meroe:

SINAR makes a 🐟grand new back that t♌akes the POLAROID 4 x 5 back.  It arrived yesterday evening.  So I tried everything out at once this morning at 6 AM!

What a joy to work with and what a pleasure to behold -- the pictures that emerge ಌpristine and beautiful from my own came🐈ra!

The first pack wa🎃s used up on the subject matter of which a sample for𒈔 you is enclosed.

Thank you very much for a magnificent material!

Cordially,

Minor White'