Yellowstone
Photograph
Yellowstone
ca. 1975
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (17.2 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.4 × 25.3 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0006
Inscriptions Backprinted on verso, OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
Printed on paper label and affixed to verso, BC: YELLOWSTONE -- A yellow diamond in-the-rough, the fourth biggest diamond ever found, is \ prepared for cutting in a specially made stand. The stone, which weighed 890 carats in its \ original state, was purchased last year by Zale Corporation of Irving, Texas for an undis- \ closed amount. Cutting of the diamond, which began in February, has produced 10 "satellite \ stones" weighing a total of 152 carats. Because of the stone's tremendous value, master \ craftsmen are sawing it slowly with blades rather than using the fast, but less controllable, \ splitting method of the potentially destructive laser cutter. Faceting and polishing will \ take 18 months. When finished, the Zale Diamond may outweigh the world's largest cut diamond, \ the 530-carat Cullinan 1 of the British crown jewels. \ - 0 - \ From: Barbara Woike \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: ZALE CORPORATION \ Slug: YELLOWSTONE \ Neg. No.: ZALE 1-R3-14 \ 71085
Printed on paper label and affixed to verso, BC: YELLOWSTONE -- A yellow diamond in-the-rough, the fourth biggest diamond ever found, is \ prepared for cutting in a specially made stand. The stone, which weighed 890 carats in its \ original state, was purchased last year by Zale Corporation of Irving, Texas for an undis- \ closed amount. Cutting of the diamond, which began in February, has produced 10 "satellite \ stones" weighing a total of 152 carats. Because of the stone's tremendous value, master \ craftsmen are sawing it slowly with blades rather than using the fast, but less controllable, \ splitting method of the potentially destructive laser cutter. Faceting and polishing will \ take 18 months. When finished, the Zale Diamond may outweigh the world's largest cut diamond, \ the 530-carat Cullinan 1 of the British crown jewels. \ - 0 - \ From: Barbara Woike \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: ZALE CORPORATION \ Slug: YELLOWSTONE \ Neg. No.: ZALE 1-R3-14 \ 71085
