Original doubleweight black-and-white richly printed silver gelatin photograph, ca. 1946, inscribed in blue ink "To Paul / Best Wishes" and signed "Ethel Merman" to, respectively, the rear of the famed white motorbike and Merman's fishnet-stockinged right leg. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Ink stamped on the verso “Photograph by Vandamm Studio, 130 West 57th St., New York, N.Y.” and "Salute" and inscribed in pencil by the studio "Ethel Merman starring as Annie Oakley in 'Annie Get Your Gun' Imperial Theatre."A few blocks of nearly imperceptible toning or silvering, light show through from pencil writing along bottom edges, edges lightly dinged, overall fine. Read More...