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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
The 1909 date on the Hoppe looks like it's simply and handwritten ID of the date of the image, that could have been added at any time.
The most important stamp on that piece appears to be the one that's obscured by the Culver tag and the bar code.
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Lance expressed some interest, so I posted a Culver photo. That's the Bain News Service stamp that's obscurred. The Culver stamp is somewhat useful in that they moved from the 660 address sometime after 1935. I don't know the exact date. Also, there's a Culver photo in the 'Feb pick-up' thread with an address of 205 East 42nd - another way to narrow down age using the Culver stamps. But I agree, they are fairly useless - Culver seemed to have picked up a lot of photos that had been used for years by other services, such as this Bain photo.
The actual print is definitely 1910-ish - a Bain, probably Type 1. It's the one on the right. (The photo on the left is NOT the front of the other scan I posted - I just happened to scan these two together a while back)