[Man getting shoes shined]
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Photograph
[Man getting shoes shined]
From Shoeshine Boxes, Italy
ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 19.5 x 18.6 cm
Gift of Ben Shneiderman, 2007
Inscriptions verso (typed label, ripped away in places): Shoeshine Boxes / 7. / Shining shoes is an art in Italy, and the shoeshiner lends dignity [?] to his trade by buying elaborately [decorated?] stand and brush-rack.
verso (red ink): Italy-Sz
verso (stamp): #26
verso (pencil): 16 [encircled]
verso (stamp): Please credit / David Seymour - Magnum / Magnum Photos Inc. / 55 West 8th Street, New York 11, N.Y. / London Representative / Elizabeth Reeve / 185, High [illegible] London, W.C. 1
Magnum Photos Inc. / 55 West 45th Street, New York 19, N.Y.
verso (red ink): Italy-Sz
verso (stamp): #26
verso (pencil): 16 [encircled]
verso (stamp): Please credit / David Seymour - Magnum / Magnum Photos Inc. / 55 West 8th Street, New York 11, N.Y. / London Representative / Elizabeth Reeve / 185, High [illegible] London, W.C. 1
Magnum Photos Inc. / 55 West 45th Street, New York 19, N.Y.
