from a Polaroid Type 55 negative, mounted, signed in ink on the mount, framed, an Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition label and a Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse, 1951, probably printed in the 1960s (400 Photographs, p. 331, variant)

Pittsburgh, Ansel Adams at Silver Eye Center for Photography, November 1999 - January 2000

Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams, sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, October - Nov♔ember 2001, and traveling ඣto 3 other venues through 2003 (see Appendix 1)

Naples, Florida, Museum of Art, Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, May - July 2004, and traveling to 8 other venues through 2007 (see Appendi𒀰x 1)

This photographs is in generally excellent condition. Upon close examination in raking light, there is a one-inch horizontal impression, near the center of the right edge, which does not appear to break the emulsion. The photograph is overmatted and its mount is affixed to the overmat's backboard.
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