2 photographs, each mounted, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, the photographer's '1331 Green Street, San Francisco' studio label, with typed title and date, and a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed title, credit, process, and accession information, on the reverse, 1934, printed no later than 1960 (Photographs, pl. 26; Modernist Years, unpaginated;  Portraiture, pl. 82; Frontiers, fig. 80; Taschen, p. 156; Ideas without End, pl. 80, p. 140, cropped variant) (2)

Each acquired from the photographer in February 1960 for the Library Collection

Alfred Stieglitz (3/4 standing) - This print, on slightly warm-toned paper with only a slight surface sheen, and mounted to cream-colored board, is in generally excellent condition. The mount's right and lower edges appear to be either deckled or somewhat unevenly trimmed, but this does not affect the print. The print is overmatted with three segments of cloth tape on the reverse. Alfred Stieglitz (close up) - This print, on slightly warm-toned paper with only a slight surface sheen and mounted to cream-colored board, is in generally excellent condition.
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