Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.238818

Inscriptions:
recto, handwritten in pencil on masking tape: [arrow pointing left] / 1 [circled] POS / 83 1//2pi LEWIS 16-13 B / [arrow pointing right]; handwritten in red pencil: [editing marks around two birds]; handwritten in blue pencil: Ppp. 154-155; handwritten in red pencil: Emphasis / birds – [illegible] / [illegible] are clean with good / [illegible] can be made / darker to set off birds; verso, handwritten in black ink: Tarritoril [sic] Squabble - / generally, one can say that Egrets / are unpleasant, violent birds. Their sense of / home is not precise and [word crossed out] a bird is apt to / land on another’s next. Usually, these arguments are / brief but they occasionally end in Death for at least one / of the combatants.; handwritten in pencil: 88145Blm / [line] / 2C13 / [line] / 6; stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / [handwritten in blue ink] Vernon Merritt / from BLACK STAR; handwritten in pencil: [illegible] 41 1//2 [underlined]

Tagasauris Keywords: Branch; Day; Egret; Landscape; No Photostyle; Nobody; Nobody; Outdoors; Science and technology; Sky; Tree
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BIRDS / EGRETS
Retouching: N