I would say Andrew is spot on. I have handled several of the original 8x10 prints previously that were hand-lettered by George Burke for use in reproduction. The Type 1 original had no lettering. The lettering was applied by what appeared to be white paint and you could feel the texture of the paint on the surface of the photo, and in most cases see the indentations of the guide lines in the photo's surface. These hand-lettered 8x10s were then re-shot by Burke to produce a 2nd-generation negative which was then used for producing additional prints. None of Burke's originals that I have ever handled had the black borders, but the prints that Jim Rowe produced from the same negatives in later years very often did (with the exeception of his more common RPPC's). The black border is actually the edges of the negative beyond the image area, which also allows you to see Burke's file coding and other notations that were on the negative itself.
All of that is a long-winded explanation that these would appear to be very attractive Type IV photos (produced from a duplicate negative more than two years from when they were originally shot).
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