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Signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Ansel Adams"; printed and typed verso, on paper affixed to mount, upper center, in black ink: "A / PHOTOGRAPH / BY / ANSEL ADAMS / SAN FRANCISCO [printed] / 9. / FACTORY BUILDING [underlined/ typed]"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 18.1 × 23.3 cm (7 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Mount: 35.5 × 45.6 cm (14 × 18 in.)
Adams, Ansel. 1985. “An Autobiography.” New York Graphic Society. p. 124.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” July 24-October 17, 1993.
New York, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, “The American Century: Art and Culture” April 22 - August 22, 1999.
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