Author: Photo presumably taken by "Mr. DiLillo", who was identified as staff photographer of The Oysterette (Mead 1989, p. 170). Credits: * Original source: The Oysterette yearbook, 1953, published by Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, New York.
Immediate source: Reproduced on page 171 of Clifford Mead's 1989 book Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 0-916583-37-6. Scanned copy of the book accessed via the Internet Archive. Minor retouching by uploader—see upload history for unretouched original.