[Man posed on the corner of a rooftop with an arc of eleven suited men balanced on his shoulders]

[Man posed on the corner of a rooftop with an arc of eleven suited men balanced on his shoulders]

Photograph

[Man posed on the corner of a rooftop with an arc of eleven suited men balanced on his shoulders]

ca. 1930
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13 5/16 × 10 11/16 in. (33.8 × 27.1 cm)
Paper: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.5 × 27.7 cm)
Matted: 22 1/2 × 18 7/16 × 1/8 in. (57.2 × 46.9 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
Inscriptions Inscribed in black pencil on image recto, BL: Crop out of neg
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: Dear Lou \ This group were the founders of C.P.S. \ Mills came in shortly after. \ This freak photo was used for publicity. \ Ray
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BRC: 37 1/2 % [sideways]
Inscribed in black pencil on verso, BC: P-3 [circled]

[7 photographers identified with pencil inscriptions, Sipley's hand:
J.L. Dillon, Hahn, Frank Homer, Joe Pearce, Harold Stott, Geo. Berry [?], Harry Hippler [?]]
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