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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, left center, sideways, in graphite: "#33"; verso, center, in graphite: "3 / 2"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "#467"; verso, lower center, in graphite: "Box 11"; stamped and inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink and graphite: "Walker Evans [stamped in black ink] / I [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] 56v [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] / 5-33 [inscribed in graphite]"
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, “Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s,” September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)
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