Bruce Shanks (1908-1980)

[inscription reads] " White haze in the air. / September 27, 1914 / A pleasantly warm September day. / Pale sky; dappled clouds. / Refreshing breeze. / Leaves falling in the hazy air catching the thin yellow sun¬shine. Leaf-crumpled lawns yellow-dotted with flat-lying dandelions. They are the freshest & most uninspiring flower of this season. / A look down a tree vistaed (sic) street: thinned trees, some yellowing, & others rusting, leaf-eddies over the dandelion starred lawns; cyclones of leaves in mid-air; "