titled and dated '1955' and signed and dated '77' in ink in the margin, the archive stamp, with title, 'Americans 69,' and '486' in pencil, on the reverse, framed, a Bloom Collection label on the reverse, 1955, printed in the 1970s

Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, 2004

The Americans, no. 69

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 294, 479, and 480, and Contact no. 69

U. S. Camera [Annual] 1958, p. 101

Robert Frank: Story Lines, frontispiece 5

Michael Shelden, 'Melancholy and Menace,' Telegraph Magazine, 3 May 2008, p. 34

This print, on heavy, semi-glossy paper, is in generally very good condition. In raking light, several faint diagonal, superficial scratches, which do not appear to break the emulsion, are visible in the lower right corner. Frank's title and date in the margin are faded, and the margin is intermittently age-darkened. The margins are lightly soiled and worn from handling. The Robert Frank Archive stamp is annotated 'Americans 69,' 'Drug Store - Detroit,' and '486' in an unidentified hand in pencil. It is believed that only 5 other prints of this image have previously been offered at auction.
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“Sitting around in the drugstore.  I remember often going into Woolworth's. I photographed a lot. . .  I'd get a Coke. . .  Normally when I came to a town, it was the first place I went to.  For some reason I found it very heartening”  Robert Frank