Two-headed baby terrapin

Two-headed baby terrapin

Photograph

Andreas Feininger

Maker
American, b. France, 1906–1999

Two-headed baby terrapin

1948
Gelatin silver print, printed 1948 by Mauro Rubino, LIFE Photo lab
Image/Overall: 10 11/16 × 13 1/2 in. (27.1 × 34.3 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1978.0606.0273
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: Return to N.W. Cohen [underlined]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TRC: Blue \ Ch 13 or 14 [sideways]
inscribed in pencil on verso, TC: Two-headed Turtle (baby-terrapin) \ Notice size of man's \ thumbnail as indicator of scale! \ (8x na[illegible]. size)
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: 64 [underlined] [sideways]
stamped in black ink on verso, RC: LIFE PRINT \ BY \ MAURO RUBINO
stamped in blue ink on verso, RC: JAN 21 1948 \ LIFE PHOTO \ BY \ ANDREAS FEININGER
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: Credit
stamped in black ink on verso, BR: FOTO: ANDREAS \ FEININGER [sideways]
inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: 4x5 Linhof- \ 90-mm Angulon- \ one Flash-af camera- \ focus on line-when head in line, \ you fired-life story
signed in pencil on verso, BR: A. Feininger \ 1948

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