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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, left center, sideways, in graphite: "# 35"; stamped and inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink and graphite: "Walker Evans [stamped in black ink] / I [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] 100v [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle]"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "# 1688 Box 12"; verso, lower center, in graphite: "15 [?/encircled]"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "900-"
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, “American Photographs by Walker Evans,” September 28-October 31, 1938.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Walker Evans: Leaving Things as They Are,” September 12–November 8, 1987. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Concerned Photographer,” March 18–June 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Newell G. Smith, and Gregory Harris)
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