Laura Gilpin

mounted on Winsor & Newton illustration board, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, a typed label, with credit, title, and publication information, and a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed title, credit, and process and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1946, printed no later than 1957

Acquired from the photographer in May 1957 for the Library Collection

This contact print, trimmed to the image, is in generally excellent condition. Upon very close examination, a thin, 1½-inch linear matte transfer is visible in the lower left quadrant of the image. There are a few graphite-colored fingerprints on the front of the cream-colored mount. The upper left corner of the mount is softly bent, and there is a stray green ink mark along the lower left mount edge.
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