Imogen Cunningham

mounted, signed 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, before 1930, printed no later than 1960 (Flora, pl. 37; Photographs, pl. 14; Modernist Years, unpaginated; Frontiers, unpaginated; Seeing Straight, pl. 26)

Acquired from the photographer in February 1960 for the Library Collection

This print, on paper with a surface sheen, is in generally very good condition. When examined in raking light, the following are visible: a number of small mounting bubbles throughout the print; a tiny crease not breaking the emulsion in the center right; and a faint small scratch in the leaf area in the lower right quadrant. The mounting bubbles likely occurred during the mounting process and are not visible when viewing the photograph in the normal way. There is faint age-darkening at the periphery of the mount, and there is light soiling at the periphery on the reverse.
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