Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Property from the Collection of Richard Lorenz, Oakland
  
  Literature:
  Nancy Newhall, The Pageant of the History of Northern California, a Photographic Interpretation by Ansel Adams, American Trust Company, San Francisco, 1954, pl.56
  
  This mural and the following six are from a series executed in the mid-1950s for the American Trust Company (later taken over by Wells Fargo Bank), for their offices on Montgomery Street between Washington and Clay Streets in San Francisco. Richard Lorenz removed the murals before the bank was demolished in 1972, and the land it had occupied was incorporated into the site for the Transamerica Pyramid.
  
  The murals were printed in sections by Moulin Studios in San Francisco. Because of their size, they were developed in mammoth trays, then mounted with wheat paste to Homosote board. Adams preferred the look of flush-frame murals, unmatted, and surrounded by a thin wood frame. Since Adams disliked the idea of signing on the the image itself, these prints were not signed.

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