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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"LFGAY-24.1\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"4000\"\r\nStamped in blue ink on verso: \"113/A (stamped in black ink)\"\r\nStamped in black ink on verso: \"VINTAGE PRINT\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"71-27-4-37\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"1971 NEW YORK CITY, USA\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"Leonard Freed (signed)\"\r\nStamped in black ink on verso: \"\u00a9 Leonard Freed-Magnum\"\r\nImprinted in black type on paper label adhered to verso: \"MAGNUM/15 West 46 Street, New York, New York 10036/\u00a9 Leonard Freed-Magnum USA 1971 (written in pencil)/In New Yorks East Village trans-/vestites in the audience dres-/sed up to attend the transvestites/theatre performance by the/Cockettes from California./021 (crossed out) 71 (written in pencil)-27-4-37\"\r\nCommercially imprinted throughout verso of paper: \"Agfa\"\r\n",
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