19th-century Photography and Edward Curtis

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Lot 1
FELICE BEATO (1832-1909)
Panorama in five parts of Hong Kong, showing the Fleet for North China Expedition.

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Lot 2
(CHINA)
A large album with 24 photographs titled "Vues de la légation de France à Pekin."

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(SOUTH INDIA)
An album with more than 40 photographs, some by A.T.W. Penn (1849-1924), of the Tamil Nadu hill station of Ootacamund (Ooty).

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Lot 4
KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934)
Album with 50 hand-colored photographs, including numerous scenes from temples, occupational tableaux, a tattooed figure, and more.

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Lot 5
MARTÍN CHAMBI (1891-1973)
Group of 9 medium-format photographs depicting Cuzco architecture, church interiors, decorative details, and one of Machu Picchu.

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LUDWIG BELITSKI (1830-1902)
Pattern Glassware.

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Lot 7
ISAAC H. BONSALL (1833-1909)
Federal Supply Depot on Tennessee River, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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THOMAS EAKINS (1844-1916) (or circle of)
Thirteen Students, Pennsylvania Academy Studio.

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Lot 9
FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON (1864-1955)
The New Woman (self-portrait in her Washington D.C. studio).

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Lot 10
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE (1830-1904)
A selection of 4 plates from Animal Locomotion.

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Lot 11
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
The North American Indian. Volume I.

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Lot 12
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
The North American Indian. Portfolio I.

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Lot 13
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
The Vanishing Race.

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EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
Holds the Eagle, Hidatsa.

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EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
Cheyenne * Peachy To-Die - Hoopa * Pavia - Taos * Woman of the Desert, Navaho.

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Lot 16
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
A selection of 6 photogravures from The North American Indian.

Pictorialism and early American Landscapes

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Lot 17
WILSON A. BENTLEY (1865-1931)
A group of 4 vintage frost studies.

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Lot 18
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York.

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Lot 19
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Steeplechase Day, after the Races, Paris.

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Lot 20
EDWARD STEICHEN.
Steichen the Photographer.

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Lot 21
(EDWARD STEICHEN) (1879-1973)
A portfolio entitled The Early Years 1920-1927.

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Lot 22
GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER (1852-1934)
Mother and daughter with potted bulb.

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GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER (1852-1934)
Man reading a newspaper.

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Lot 24
ALVIN LANGDON COBURN (1882-1966)
A complete set of 20 unbound photogravures from the publication London.

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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946)
Camera Work Number 47.

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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Camera Work Number 42/43.

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Lot 27
PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)
Camera Work Number 48.

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Lot 28
PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)
The Mexican Portfolio [2nd Edition].

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Lot 29
PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)
Landscape near Sea in Montélimar, France.

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Lot 30
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Lillian Gish as Ophelia in Hamlet for Vanity Fair, February 1963.

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DORIS ULMANN (1882-1934)
Still Life.

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LAURA GILPIN (1891-1979)
Storm over La Bajada Hill.

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MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002)
El ensueño [The Daydream].

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MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002)
El umbral [The Threshold].

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Lot 35
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
The Sentinel, Yosemite Valley, California.

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National Park, California.

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park.

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Forest Detail, Winter.

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Manly Beacon from Zabriskie Point, Storm, Death Valley National Monument, California.

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Moonrise from Glacier Point.

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Lot 41
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
El Capitan, Winter, Sunrise, Yosemite National Park, California.

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Lot 42
ANSEL ADAMS.
Sierra Nevada, The John Muir Trail.

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Lot 43
DAIN TASKER (1872-1964)
Lily, an X-Ray.

Early 20th-century European Photography

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EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927)
Parc de Saint Cloud.

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Lot 45
ARTHUR SIEGEL (1913-1978)
Face Net.

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Lot 46
FLORENCE HENRI (1893-1982)
A group of 4 photographs with abstract compositions.

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Lot 47
RUDOLF KOPPITZ (1884-1936)
Pictures from the Tyng Collection, featuring the iconic Bewegungs Studie by Koppitz.

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Lot 48
BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)
A Monastic Brothel, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Paris.

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Lot 49
ILSE BING (1899-1998)
Bretagne, women with fishing in basket.

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ILSE BING (1899-1998)
Self-portrait (Canal Saint Martin, Paris)

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Chez Mondrian, Paris.

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Lot 52
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
At a Café, Paris.

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Broken Plate, Paris.

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ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)
Two Young Women, Ethiopia.

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Lot 55
LISETTE MODEL (1901-1983)
Gambler type, Promenade des Anglais, Nice.

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Lot 56
LISETTE MODEL (1901-1983)
Reflection, New York.

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Lot 57
JAROSLAV RÖSSLER (1902-1990)
Paris II (Advertising study for watches).

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JAROSLAV RÖSSLER (1902-1990)
Advertising study for Céres Pasta.

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Lot 59
SHELDON HINE (1907-2002)
Light Abstraction with Egg.

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Lot 60
WERNER MANTZ (1901-1983)
Industrial interior.

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Lot 61
GYÖRGY KEPES (1906-2001)
Abstraction.

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Lot 62
JOSEF SUDEK (1896-1976)
From the series, Window of My Studio 1930-1954.

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JOSEF SUDEK (1896-1976)
On My Table, from the series Labyrinths.

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Lot 64
WILLIAM MORTENSEN (1897-1965)
A selection of 16 photographs from the portfolio Pictorial Photography.

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Lot 65
FRANTIŠEK DRTIKOL (1883-1961)
The Three Graces.

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Lot 66
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Jean Cocteau.

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Lot 67
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
A selection of 5 photogravures from the portfolio Électricité.

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MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Dora Maar, Ady, Picasso, and Kasbec-dog (Holidays in Antibes).

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Lot 69
(HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC)
A double portrait of the artist painting himself.

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Lot 70
LEE MILLER (1907-1977)
Portrait of the film actress Kendall Leigh.

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Lot 71
LOTTE JACOBI (1896-1990)
Isa Beate Vermehren, Accordion Player.

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Lot 72
ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990)
A selection of six street scenes and portraits depicting Jewish life in Poland.

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Lot 73
ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990)
The entrance to the ghetto in Kaziemirz, Cracow.

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Lot 74
ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990)
The beam of light enters the darkness.

Early American and Depression-era Photography

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LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
A group of 9 images depicting young workers across America during the Second Industrial Revolution.

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LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Homework, New York (On the Bowery, New York City).

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LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
The Wash-Up - Pittsburg [sic] Steel Mill.

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LEWIS W. HINE (1874-1940)
Spinners and Doffers (Child Labor in Textile Factory), Mollahan Mills, Newberry, South Carolina.

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Lot 79
RALPH STEINER (1899-1986)
Bicycle with Shadow * Mozart * At the Beach.

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Lot 80
RALPH STEINER (1899-1986)
Clothesline.

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Lot 81
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Flowers and Poster of Herbert Hoover in House Window, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

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Lot 82
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Man in front of mural of Parque Central, Havana, Cuba.

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Lot 83
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Connecticut Frame House.

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WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Parked cars and pedestrians on Main Street, Greensboro, Alabama.

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Lot 85
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Sitting room interior, through doorway, residence of Gifford Cochran, Croton Falls, New York.

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Lot 86
BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)
A selection of 5 Depression-era photographs, all depicting groups of people.

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Lot 87
DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
A Sign of the Times (Depression – Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco).

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Lot 88
DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California.

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Lot 89
HORACE BRISTOL (1908-1997)
Rose of Sharon, Tulare County, California.

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Lot 90
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
New York at Night.

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Willow Street #104, Brooklyn.

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Theoline, Pier 11, East River, Manhattan, New York.

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Gasoline Station, Tremont Avenue and Dock Street, Bronx.

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Rope Store, Peerless Equipment Company, 189 South Street, Manhattan.

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Foundations of Rockefeller Center, New York.

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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Penn Station, Interior.

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Lot 97
RALSTON CRAWFORD (1906-1978)
Building Facade, New York City.

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Lot 98
TODD WEBB (1905-2000)
Suffolk and Hester Streets, New York.

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Lot 99
LOU STOUMEN (1917-1991)
Sailor and Girl on Subway.

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Lot 100
AARON SISKIND (1903-1991)
Harlem.

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Lot 101
GORDON PARKS (1912-2006)
American Gothic, Washington D.C.

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Lot 102
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)
Portrait of Gordan Parks.

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Lot 103
ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN (1915-1985)
Woman and child looking through window in house, Oswego, NY * Farmer and Wife, Kersey, CO.

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Lot 104
MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-1990)
A Tenant Family on Porch of Their Home (Farm Security Administration).

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Lot 105
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)
Little Boy Selling Coca-Cola at Roadside, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Lot 106
HELEN LEVITT (1913-2009)
N.Y. (children with a broken mirror)

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Lot 107
HELEN LEVITT (1913-2009)
N.Y. (four seated people) * N.Y. (three women) * N.Y. (seated mother with children) * N.Y. (women on a stoop).

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HELEN LEVITT (1913-2009)
New York (two boys on curb).

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Lot 109
HANSEL MIETH (1909-1998)
From the Harlem series for LIFE.

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Lot 110
MORRIS ENGEL (1918-2005)
Rebecca, Harlem, N.Y.

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MORRIS ENGEL (1918-2005)
A group of six photographs from New York's East Side (4) and Chicago (2).

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Lot 112
WALTER ROSENBLUM (1919-2006)
Tar Beach, Pitt Street, New York.

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Lot 113
WALTER ROSENBLUM (1919-2006)
Sisters.

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Lot 114
GEORGE KRAUSE (1937- )
Five Boys on Sidewalk, Philadelphia.

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Lot 115
HORACE BRISTOL (1908-1997)
Shinto Shrine Melee, New Year's, Japan.

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Lot 116
DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Gunlock, Utah.

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Lot 117
EMMET GOWIN (1941- )
Child holding a teacher's arm, Memorial Guidance Clinic, Richmond, Virginia.

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Lot 118
EMMET GOWIN (1941- )
Shilo Baptist Church, Stacy, North Carolina.

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Lot 119
FRANK PAULIN (1926- )
Cuba (children in masks).

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Lot 120
INGE MORATH (1923-2002)
Street Musicians, Ispahan, Iran.

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Lot 121
DMITRI BALTERMANTS (1912-1990)
Tchaikovsky, Germany.

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Lot 122
MARVIN NEWMAN (1927- )
New Year's Eve (trumpets).

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Lot 123
LEIGH A. WIENER (1929-1993)
Billie in Berlin.

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Lot 124
JAMES VAN DER ZEE (1885-1983)
Teddy Hall (Raining Musical Instruments).

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Lot 125
WILLIAM CLAXTON (1927-2008)
Chet Baker and Teddy Charles (piano), Pasadena.

Portraits and the mid-century scene

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Lot 126
DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)/NEIL SELKIRK (1947- )
James Brown at Home in Curlers, Queens, NY.

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Lot 127
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)
Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Lot 128
YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002)
Albert Schweitzer.

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Lot 129
HAROLD EDGERTON (1903-1990)
Bullet Cutting a Card

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Lot 130
ALBERTO KORDA (1928-2001)
Guerrillero Heroico, Che Guevara.

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Lot 131
ALBERTO KORDA (1928-2001)
El Quijote de la Farola [Don Quixote of the Lamp Post].

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Lot 132
ROBERTO SALAS (1940- )
Fidel Castro, New York.

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Lot 133
ROBERTO SALAS (1940- )
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

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Lot 134
LOUIS STETTNER (1922-2016)
Penn Station, New York.

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Lot 135
WILLIAM KLEIN (1928- )
Four Heads, New York.

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Lot 136
WILLIAM KLEIN (1928- )
St. Patrick's Day Parade, New York.

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Lot 137
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Puddle, Empire State Building.

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Lot 138
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Landing Pigeon.

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Lot 139
ERNST HAAS (1921-1986)
The Kiss, New York.

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Lot 140
ROBERT FRANK.
Gli Americani [The Americans].

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Lot 141
ROY DECARAVA (1919-2009)
Graduation.

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Lot 142
ROY DECARAVA.
A group of 6 signed books, including his iconic The Sweet Flypaper of Life and important later monographs.

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Lot 143
DANNY LYON (1942- )
Bob Dylan at the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi.

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Lot 144
DANNY LYON (1942- )
Eddie Brown Arrested in Albany, Georgia.

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Lot 145
DANNY LYON (1942- )
John Lewis in Cambridge, MD.

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DANNY LYON (1942- )
NOW.

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Lot 147
DANNY LYON (1942- )
Clifford Vaughs arrested, Cambrige, MD.

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Lot 148
JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE (1894-1986)
Huguette Sabouret au Château des Essarts, Veyvialle, France.

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Lot 149
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978)
Welsh Miners.

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Lot 150
ÉDITH GÉRIN (1910-1997)
Immeubles démolis [Demolished Buildings], 13th Arrondissement, Paris.

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Lot 151
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Two horses, Ireland.

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Lot 152
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Marseilles, France.

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Lot 153
BILL BRANDT (1904-1983)
Park Lane (Mayfair, London).

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Lot 154
BILL BRANDT (1904-1983)
Nude with Hat.

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Lot 155
EDOUARD BOUBAT (1923-1999)
Couple kissing on bench, Paris.

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Lot 156
MARC RIBOUD (1923-2016)
Provence.

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Lot 157
FRANK HORVAT (1928-2020)
Two Couples, Green Park, London.

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Lot 158
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Palais-Royal, Paris.

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Lot 159
BRUCE DAVIDSON (1933- )
Child Running Through the Ruins, Sicily.

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Lot 160
ELLIOTT ERWITT (1928- )
Nudists on Ile du Levant, France.

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Lot 161
JOSEF KOUDELKA (1938- )
Boy on Riverbank.

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Lot 162
ANDERS PETERSEN (1944- )
Together, four photographs from the series Café Lehmitz, Hamburg.

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Lot 163
ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)
A selection of eleven photographs from the portfolio Robert Doisneau - Portraits.

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Lot 164
ELLI MARCUS (1899-1977)/GEORGE TICE (1938- )
Contact strip with four frames depicting Alfred Stieglitz's hair cut and Georgia O'Keeffe.

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Lot 165
RUDY BURCKHARDT (1914-1999)
Willem de Kooning.

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Lot 166
ALAN ROSS (1948- )
Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams, Carmel.

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Lot 167
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Oak, Monterey.

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Lot 168
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)/BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)
Jean and Zohmah Charlot.

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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Seaweed, Carmel.

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Lot 170
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
San Carlos Lake, Arizona.

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EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)
Cypress trees, Point Lobos.

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Lot 172
WILLIAM A. GARNETT (1916-2006)
Nude Dune, Death Valley, California (Sand Dune #1).

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BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)
Mendenhall Glacier.

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Lot 174
BRETT WESTON (1911-1993)
Jellyfish.

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Lot 175
FRANK GOHLKE (1942- )
Landscape near Napa, California.

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Lot 176
MARIO GIACOMELLI (1925-2000)
Landscape #35.

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Lot 177
KURT MARKUS (1947- )
Namibia Africa, No. 2 * Namibia Africa, No. 5.

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Lot 178
O. WINSTON LINK (1914-2001)
Sometimes the Electricity Fails, Vesuvius, VA * Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, VA * Drivers, Bluefield Lubritorium, Bluefield, WV * Abingdon Branch Train No. 202 Northbound moving through the hills of Ashe County, North Carolina.

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O. WINSTON LINK (1914-2001)
Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat.

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Lot 180
EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)/COLE WESTON (1919-2003)
Charis, Lake Ediza.

The Human Form

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Lot 181
BARBARA MORGAN (1900-1992)
Pearl Primus - Speak to Me of Rivers * Martha Graham, Frontier * Torso - Martha Graham * Martha Graham Letter to the World Duet * Charles Weidman.

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BARBARA MORGAN (1900-1992)
Martha Graham - El Penitente (Solo- Erick Hawkins - El Flagellante).

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BARBARA MORGAN (1900-1992)
Martha Graham -- Letter to the World (Kick).

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BARBARA MORGAN (1900-1992)
Samadhi, light drawing.

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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Hands, Hands.

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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Carmen Face Massage, New York.

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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Torso by Mestrovic, Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.

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RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006)
Classic torso with hands.

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RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006)
Classic Torso.

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RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006)
Two Forms.

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Lot 191
RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006)
Joan--Folding.

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Lot 192
ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985)
Distortion No. 48.

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Lot 193
GEORGE PLATT LYNES (1907-1955)
Ralph Pomeroy No. 6

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Lot 194
BRUCE BELLAS (BRUCE OF LA) (1909-1974)
A selection of approximately 80 male physique photographs.

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Lot 195
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg left, Gregory Corso right, Tangier.

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MARCUS LEATHERDALE (1952- )
Gothic.

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Lot 197
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989)
Bruce, from the Z Portfolio.

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Lot 198
ROY SCHATT (1919-2002)
James Dean with Rolleiflex, New York.

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PHILIPPE HALSMAN (1906-1979)
Marilyn Jumping.

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Lot 200
LAWRENCE SCHILLER (1936- )
A portfolio entitled Marilyn & Me.

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BRUCE DAVIDSON (1933- )
Laughing Ted Kennedy.

American late 20th-century Photography

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RAY METZKER (1931-2014)
Untitled (Chicago).

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HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Chicago.

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HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Eleanor and Barbara, Lake Michigan.

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HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Cape Cod.

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MINOR WHITE (1908-1976)
Beginnings, Frosted Window, Rochester, New York.

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WYNN BULLOCK (1902-1975)
Child in the Forest.

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AARON SISKIND (1903-1991)
Jerome, Arizona.

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AARON SISKIND (1903-1991)
Acolman, Mexico 4.

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AARON SISKIND (1903-1991)
Acolman 1 * Yuchitan 3, Mexico.

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AARON SISKIND (1903-1991)
A suite of 10 abstract expressionist photographs.

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Lot 212
PAUL CAPONIGRO (1932- )
Rock Wall #2, West Hartford, Connecticut.

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Lot 213
PAUL CAPONIGRO (1932- )
Two Sunflowers, Winthrop, MA.

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Lot 214
LEE FRIEDLANDER (1934- )/JIM DINE (1935- )
A selection of 8 plates from the portfolio Photographs & Etchings.

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Lot 215
LEE FRIEDLANDER (1934- )
Rose stems in John Szarkowski's apartment, New York

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Lot 216
GEORGE TICE (1938- )
Quaker Interior, Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

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Lot 217
WILLIAM CLIFT (1944- )
Reflection, Old St. Louis County Courthouse, St. Louis, MO.

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Lot 218
EMMET GOWIN (1941- )
Winter, Near Garden City, Kansas.

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Lot 219
JERRY UELSMANN (1934- )
Untitled (nude figure and tree)

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Lot 220
ROBERT ADAMS (1937- )
Amongst the last trees and lilacs surrounding a farmhouse, Edge of Longmont, Colorado.

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Lot 221
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Abandoned truck in auto graveyard, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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Lot 222
MALICK SIDIBÉ (1935-2016)
Soirée, a chemise with 21 photographs.

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Lot 223
LARRY FINK (1941- )
Pearls, NYC * Broker, Bear Stearns, NYC * Family, Thanksgiving, NJ * Mother & Maggie Kuhn, NJ.

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Lot 224
MARC COHEN (1943- )
Little girl hiding face.

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Lot 225
GARRY WINOGRAND (1928-1984)
San Marcos, Texas.

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Lot 226
GARRY WINOGRAND (1928-1984)
A pair of photographs from the series Women are Beautiful.

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Lot 227
MARTIN PARR (1952- )
Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Lot 228
BOB ADELMAN (1930-2016)
People's Wall, World's Fair, Queens, N.Y.

Contemporary Photography

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Lot 229
JOHN GOSSAGE.
LAMF (LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER - 3 DAYS IN BERLIN).

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Lot 230
EZRA STOLLER (1915-2004)
Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel, Le Corbusier, Ronchamp, France.

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Lot 231
JOHN DUGDALE (1960- )
Margie.

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Lot 232
JOHN DUGDALE (1960- )
Houston Magnolia.

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Lot 233
CINDY SHERMAN (1954- )
Untitled.

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Lot 234
ELIOT PORTER (1901-1990)
Redbud, Red River Gorge, Kentucky.

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Lot 235
STEPHEN SHORE (1947- )
6th St. & Throckmorton St., Fort Worth, TX, 1976 * Graig Nettles, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1978.

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Lot 236
STEPHEN SHORE (1947- )
Sutter St. & Crestline Rd., Fort Worth, Texas.

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Lot 237
JOEL MEYEROWITZ (1938- )
Flying Stairwell, Provincetown, MA.

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Lot 238
RICHARD MISRACH (1949- )
View from Bombay Beach (Salton Sea).

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Lot 239
DAVID GRAHAM (1952- )
National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, Hayward, Wisconsin.

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Lot 240
WILLIAM WEGMAN (1943- )
Red Leg.

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Lot 241
SALLY MANN (1951- )
Virginia.

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Lot 242
RENEE COX (1960- )
Atlas.

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Lot 243
LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER (1982- )
Grandma Ruby and Me in Her Livingroom.

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Lot 244
KENRO IZU (1949- )
Still Life #227

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Lot 245
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (1949- )
Mary Decker, Eugene, Oregon.

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Lot 247
EVELYN HOFER (1922-2009)
My Telephone in the Tawaraya Inn Kyoto, Japan.

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Lot 248
ROBERT AND SHANA PARKEHARRISON.
The Book of Life.

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Lot 249
MICHAEL WOLF (1954-2019)
Transparent City #39.

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Lot 250
YASUMASA MORIMURA (1951- )
Daughter of Art History (Little Princess A).

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Lot 251
ROSEMARY LAING (1959- )
Groundspeed (Harrogate Flower) #9.

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Lot 252
MARCO BREUER (1966- )
Untitled.

Vernacular

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Lot 253
LEWIS M. RUTHERFORD (1816-1892)
Photographie de la Lune, á son 1st Quartier.

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Lot 254
(NEW YORK CITY)
Wall Street, Looking Towards Trinity Church.

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Lot 255
GEORGE P. HALL & SON (1876-1914)
New York City & Brooklyn Bridge.

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Lot 256
(CHINA)
An album titled Views of Peking [Beijing], Tientsin [Tianjin] and Neighbourhood with 48 photographs.

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Lot 257
(BEJING, CHINA)
The Forbidden City Pekin & Chinese Views Souvenir Playing Cards.

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Lot 258
(TRAVEL ALBUM)
A wide-ranging album with more than 160 images that follows travels as widespread as Hawaii, California, and Cuba.

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Lot 259
(PANORAMA--L.C. HENRICHSEN)
A 14-part panorama titled "Portland, Oregon, From Heights West of the City Looking East."

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Lot 260
H.R. LOCKE (1856-1927)
Calamity Jane, General Crook's Scout.

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Lot 261
ANDREW J. RUSSELL (1830-1902)
Laying Last Rail, Promentory Point, Utah.

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Lot 262
(CABINET CARDS--THEATER)
Set of two albums containing approximately 330 theatrical cabinet cards depicting famous late 19th-century Broadway and West End actors and opera singers.

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Lot 263
(HOME INTERIORS & DESIGN)
A selection of four photographs showing the elaborate decorative arts features of the hall, library (2), and dining room of Louis Comfort Tiffany's home.

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Lot 264
(FASHION--BATHING BEAUTIES)
A group of 11 photographs of women in bathing suits, including some on the beach and others in studio settings.

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Lot 265
(BLOOMERS!)
A group of 3 albums featuring a typology of the dressing and undressing of an ambiguous person.

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Lot 266
(LABOR LEADERS)
Group of four portraits of activists Rose Schneidermann, Samuel Gompers, Lincoln Steffens, and Mother Jones.

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Lot 267
(POLITICAL ACTIVIST)
Anarchist Feminist Emma Goldman Indicted by Grand Jury.

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Lot 268
(ADVERTISING & STORE WINDOWS--FRUIT)
A collection of 27 advertising and display photographs related to the Florida orange and citrus industry.

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Lot 269
(DIXIE CUPS)
A promotional volume with 10 photographs titled Opportunities in Thirst.

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Lot 270
(INDUSTRY--PHILADELPHIA)
An series of 48 photographs documenting construction of infrastructure related to Germantown Gas Holder buildings and tanks.

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Lot 271
(INDUSTRY)
Three albums with nearly 400 photographs of machinery from the Consolidated Machine Tool Corporation of America, Rochester, New York.

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Lot 272
(SHIPPING--CANALS)
An album with more than 50 photographs documenting the New York State canal system.

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Lot 273
(OIL PRODUCTION)
An album with 24 photographs depicting the operations of Conewango Refining Oil Company, Pennsylvania.

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Lot 274
(CONSTRUCTION)
An album with 72 photographs documenting the construction of Municipal Pier No. 30 South, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Lot 275
(INDUSTRY--TEXTILES)
An archive of four albums with approximately 350 photographs from Parks and Woolson Machine Company, a Vermont firm that specialized in textile manufacturing appliances.

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Lot 276
(AUTOMOTIVE WRECKS)
A group of 32 photographs depicting the disastrous result of severe car collisions.

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Lot 277
(PANORMA--JOHN A. COLES JR.)
Panorama of the Flying School Detachment.

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Lot 278
ARTHUR MOLE (1889-1983) & JOHN THOMAS (active 1918-1919)
The Human Liberty Bell, 25,000 Officers & Men at Camp Dix, New Jersey.

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Lot 279
(NEW DEAL PROGRAMS: CCC BOYS)
A group of 10 photographs depicting the Civilian Conservation Corps.

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Lot 280
(THEATER)
A group of more than 50 photographs of stage productions.

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Lot 281
(A TYPOLOGY OF BRIDGES)
An album with more than 100 photographs titled Covered Bridges of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

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Lot 282
(JACK JOHNSON)
Portrait of The First Black World Heavyweight Champion Boxer.

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Lot 283
(FASHION--BRITISH)
A group of approximately 30 mod and boldly patterned fashion photographs from the 1960s and 70s.

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Lot 284
(LUNAR ORBITER PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON)
A group of 26 photographs from the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft depicting in detail the surface of the Moon.

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Lot 285
(NASA)
A selection of more than 50 photographs from the NASA space shuttle program.

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Lot 286
TOM HOWARD (1894-1961)
Execution of Ruth Snyder (the first woman to be executed and first photo of execution by electric chair).

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DAVID "CHIM" SEYMOUR (1911-1956)
The Island of Mykonos, Greece.

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Lot 288
DAVID "CHIM" SEYMOUR (1911-1956)
Land Distribution Meeting, Estremadura, Spain.

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Lot 289
ROBERT CAPA (1913-1954)
The Coming Generation, China.

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Lot 290
JOE ROSENTHAL (1911-2006)
Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima.

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Lot 291
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904-1971)
Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel.

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Lot 292
EDDIE ADAMS (1933-2004)
Boat of No Smiles, Vietnamese Refugees, Gulf of Siam.

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Lot 293
(JUNE FOURTH PROTESTS)
Tank man, Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

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19th-century Photography and Edward Curtis

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Felice beato (1832-1909)
Panorama in five parts of Hong Kong, showing the Fleet for North China Expedition.

Albumen prints from wet-collodion glass negatives, each image measuring 8½x11¼ to 8½x12¼ inches (21.6x28.6 to 21.6x31.1 cm.). March 1, 1860

Estimate

$5,000 – $7,500

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(china)
A large album with 24 photographs titled “Vues de la légation de France à Pekin.”

The title continues “M. Constans Ministre de France arrivé à Pekin avec Madame Constans Septembre 1886 repartis en Septembre 1887 pour le Japon et le Tonkin [Vietnam].” The album begins with images of the French Legation buildings and environs, including the arriving delegation and local visitors, the interior, and the surrounding park. Some street scenes follow. The final images seem to document the continued travels to Cambodia, Aden (Yemen), and Japan. Some photographs may be attributed to Thomas Child (1841-1898), who was active in the city at the time. Albumen prints, the images measuring 8¼x10½ inches (21x26.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, two the reverse, mounted recto only to two-toned mounts with a decorative border and captions in ink below each photograph. Thick folio, red leather with raised bands and decorative gilt on the backstrip, lightly worn; marbled endpapers. 1886-87

The Beijing Legation Quarter held all foreign legations between 1861 (established by the Convention of Peking after China's defeat in the Second Opium War of 1856-60) and 1959. The French legation was established in the residence of Prince An, and though the homes used for the legations were opulent (as is seen in this album), the area surrounding this section of the city (and the legations themselves) was apparently in a state of disrepair and poverty. Thomas Child is best known for his work in China, and operated out of Beijing in the 1870s and 80s. He arrived in China in 1870, and immediately began photographing the architecture of the city, the subjectmatter for which he is best known and celebrated today. There was no other commercial studio in Beijing at the time, and he began to see a demand for his work grow. By the late 1870s, he was published in the periodical The Far East, and continued to sell his prints from his studio in China. He compiled an early record of customs, architecture, and people, creating an important archive of imagery, including the only known photographic record of his architectural subjects. Thomas Child left Beijing in 1889.

Estimate

$6,000 – $9,000

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(south india)
An album with more than 40 photographs, some by A.T.W. Penn (1849-1924), of the Tamil Nadu hill station of Ootacamund (Ooty).

Featuring the overlooked photographs of A.T.W. Penn, who here takes his place in the pantheon of great 10th-century Indian photographers. The album includes wonderfully composed views of the town (present day Udhagamandalam), including a four-panel panorama, the Nilgiri Hills, picnics, tents, church fetes, Anglo Indian groups, and a view of local Toda tribespeople in their huts. There is also a view of the Nizam of Hyderabad’s palace from the river, a portrait of two Hyderabad princes, several group and individual portraits of unidentified Britons, including a gaggle of civil servants and their wives in 18th-century costumes, British women dressed as nurses for a station bazaar, Madras troops and officers in Secunderabad, the European prison, the race track, and the inevitable icons of the Taj Mahal and the Cawnpore (Kanpur) Well Memorial to the victims of the Uprising of 1857. Albumen prints, the panorama measuring 8x42¾ inches (20.3x108.5 cm.), most of the images measuring 9x11 inches (22.9x27.9 cm.), and slightly smaller, approximately 13 are 5¼x7 inches (13.3x17.8 cm.) and slightly smaller, 12 with Penn’s credit in the negative and many with later captions below the images in pencil. Small folio, decorative binding with elegant gilt embossing. Late 1870s

Acquired in 1968 from the New and Secondhand Bookshop on Kalbadevi Road in Mumbai

Albert Thomas Watson Penn’s relative obscurity as a photographer compared to such Subcontinental contemporaries as Bourne, Shepherd, and Dayal, cannot be explained by the quality of his photographs. As his images in this album attest, he was every bit their technical and aesthetic equal. More likely it is due to the fact that he limited himself primarily to the Madras Presidency, especially the environs of his hill station base in Ootacamund, high in the Nilgiri Hills. Born in Somerset in 1849, Penn left England at the age of twelve and within four years had made his way to the Nilgiri Hills. There he set about mastering the still nascent art of photography and learning to contend with the peculiar Subcontinental difficulties--extreme temperatures, dust, mold, disease, poor roads and the slow and perilous transportation of his cumbersome equipment--that defeated many of India’s first photographers. Within a few years he was advertising his own “Ootacamund Photo Establishment,” and for nearly half a century came to be regarded as the region’s premier portraitist and documentarian. His countrymen on their hot-season sojourns and the Indian princes who took up summer residences in Ootacamund and nearby Conoor especially prized Penn’s landscapes, which are still regarded as some of the finest Indian vistas ever taken. After retiring from the field, Penn returned to England for a few years, only to move back to his beloved Nilgiris, where, in October 1924, he died of apoplexy mounting the steps of All Souls Church in Conoor, where he was buried on Tiger Hill.

Estimate

$5,000 – $7,500

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Kusakabe kimbei (1841-1934)
Album with 50 hand-colored photographs, including numerous scenes from temples, occupational tableaux, a tattooed figure, and more.

The album features a photograph of Mount Fuji, junks, scenes from temples in Nikko and Tokyo, and other landscapes, as well as occupational tableaux, including a doctor, an umbrella maker, a farmer, a Shinto priest, a basket vendor, figures drinking tea, samurai in armor, and traveling chairs. Hand-colored albumen prints, the images measuring 8x10¼ inches (20.3x26 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, many with English caption labels laid in. Oblong 4to, black lacquer with ivory inlay and pictorial gilt details, showing a scene with figures in a rowboat; covers detached and backstrip perished; with Kimbei’s Yokohama address label on the inside front cover. Circa 1900

Estimate

$2,500 – $3,500

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Martín chambi (1891-1973)
Group of 9 medium-format photographs depicting Cuzco architecture, church interiors, decorative details, and one of Machu Picchu.

Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 6¾x9 inches (17.1x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, all but one with Chambi’s studio blind stamp on recto and each with his Cuzco credit stamp on verso; the image of Machu Picchu with a caption stamp, and one with a notation in pencil. 1920s-40s

Estimate

$5,000 – $7,500

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Ludwig belitski (1830-1902)
Pattern Glassware.

Salt print from a wet plate negative, the image measuring 7½x8⅝ inches (19x22 cm.), the mount 14¾x18¼ inches (37.5X46.4 cm.), with Alexander von Minutoli’s blind stamp on print recto, and plate numbers in ink on mount recto. 1854

From Alexander von Minutoli, a Prussian civil servant and collector, who established the Minutolishes Institute in Liegnitz to encourage an appreciation for decorative arts; to the Marc and Brigitte Pagneux Collection; and Pierre Bergé

Compared to both William Henry Fox Talbot and Alexander Rodchenko, Belitski's work examines spatial relationships, volume, light, and form.

Estimate

$4,000 – $6,000

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Isaac h. bonsall (1833-1909)
Federal Supply Depot on Tennessee River, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Albumen print from a wet plate negative, the image measuring 10⅜x12⅞ inches (26.4x32.7 cm.), the mount 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Bonsall’s credit and title in pencil on verso. Circa 1864

From the Artist to Lawrence Gray, a descendant of Bonsall; Estate of Lawrence Gray to an Indian artifacts dealer; Andrew Smith Gallery

Bonsall, an ambrotypist and photographer active in Kansas and Ohio, served in the United States Army beginning in 1862. He apprenticed under Mathew Brady, photographing maps in Cincinnati, but later traveling with the army to Tennessee and Georgia. Making portraits and Civil War-related landscapes, Bonsall made images during the Army's six-month siege of Chattanooga, photographing the area surrounding the nearby battle sites, including Lookout Mountain.

Estimate

$3,000 – $4,500

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Thomas eakins (1844-1916) (or circle of)
Thirteen Students, Pennsylvania Academy Studio.

Albumen print from a wet plate negative, the image measuring 3¾x4½ inches (8.3x11.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger. Circa 1882-83

The image's known sitters include J. Laurie Wallace, George Reynolds, Frank Stephens, and Blanche Hulbert.

Estimate

$3,000 – $4,500

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Frances benjamin johnston (1864-1955)
The New Woman (self-portrait in her Washington D.C. studio).

Silver print, the image measuring 8x9⅞ inches (20.3x25.1 cm.); partially mounted to a board with a typed caption label from The Sandler Collection on verso. 1896; printed circa 1950 or earlier

In this striking self-portrait Frances Benjamin Johnston's confidence, subversion of norms, and energetic presence are keenly demonstrated throughout the composition. Her crossed ankle, angled openly towards the viewer and revealing bright petticoats and tight-clad leg, beer stein, and stylized handling of her cigarette, all show a woman in full control of herself and her medium. Above her, portraits of men (some identifiable) she photographed decorate the mantle, a collection of objects that declare her success and highlight her gender.

In 1894, just two years prior to making this image, Johnston was described as "the only lady in the business of photography in the city" by the The Washington Times. And clearly, she was conscious of her role as a pioneer for women in photography, telling a reporter in 1893, “It is another pet theory with me that there are great possibilities in photography as a profitable and pleasant occupation for women, and I feel that my success helps to demonstrate this, and it is for this reason that I am glad to have other women know of my work.” Johnston was one of the first female press photographers in the United States, one of the first women to enjoy a long successful career as a photographer, recording and reporting on events, making portraits of celebrities, Presidents in the White House, and more. She documented architecture, advocating for preservation of historical buildings, and and earned widespread recognition and fame for her work. But, Johnston was not part of artistic circles, and fell out of memory after her death.

Years later, Lincoln Kirstein discovered a bound album of Johnston's photographs made at the Hampton Institute, a preparatory and trade school for African American and Native American students. Kirsten gave the album to the Museum of Modern Art, which identified and reproduced the images in a 1966 book. These images have helped bring her back to the public eye.

Smock & Daniel, A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston (Harmony Books), unpaginated

Estimate

$2,500 – $3,500

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Eadweard muybridge (1830-1904)
A selection of 4 plates from Animal Locomotion.

Collotypes, the images measuring 7¼x16 to 9x13½ inches (18.4x40.6 to 22.9x34.3 cm.), the two-toned sheets 19x24 inches (48.3x61 cm.), with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number, copyright, and date on recto. 1887

Nude woman walking, arm across torso , pl 70 * Nude man picking up a basket , pl. 218 * Nude woman emptying basin of water , pl. 402 * Locomotor ataxia, walking , pl. 550

Estimate

$3,000 – $4,500

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Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
The North American Indian. Volume I.

(Norwood, Massachusetts): (The Plimpton Press), 1907

Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Lavishly illustrated with 79 (of 79) sepia-toned photogravure plates on Van Gelder paper of Curtis’ landmark photographs of Native Americans. A few with hand coloring. This volume documenting the Apache, Jicarillas, and Navaho. Large 4to, ¾ gilt-lettered morocco; internally very clean and bright; top edge gilt. Roth 36; Parr/Badger I 73; Hasselbad 48; Auer 94. ONE OF A PLANNED EDITION OF 500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 69, SIGNED AND DATED BY CURTIS.

Acquired from Flury and Company, Seattle, Washington in 1982. This volume was in the collection of Bryson Library and Teachers College, New York, New York, a gift of Mrs. Cleveland Dodge.

Estimate

$15,000 – $25,000

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Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
The North American Indian. Portfolio I.

The iconic first portfolio in Curtis’ monumental project, including numerous important images, here complete with 39 photogravures. Photogravures on Hollande Van Gelder paper, the images measuring approximately 11¾x15¾ inches (29.8x40 cm.), and the reverse, the deckle-edged sheets 22x18 inches (55.9x45.7 cm.), each with Curtis’ credit, title, date, plate number, and the printer’s credit printed on recto. Elephant folio-sized morocco over brown cloth folding case with the gilt-lettered number; with the plate list; contents loose as issued. FROM AN UNFULFILLED EDITION OF 500. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Suffolk Engraving Co., [1907]

The Vanishing Race - Navaho * Geronimo - Apache * Desert Rovers - Apache * Apache-Land * Alchisé - Apache * Sígesh - Apache * The Apache * The Apache Reaper * The Storm - Apache * Getting Water - Apache * Story-Telling - Apache * Renegade Type - Apache * The Scout - Apache * The Morning Bath - Apache * Apache Nalin * Eskadi - Apache * An Apache Babe * Chideh - Apache * The Lost Trail - Apache * Vash Gon - Jicarilla * Chief Garfield - Jicarilla * Jicarilla Maiden * Jicarilla Matron * A Hilltop Camp - Jicarilla * Jicarilla Women * A Chief of the Desrt - Navaho * Women of the Desert - Navaho * Cañon de Cehlly - Navajo * Cañon del Muerto - Navaho * At the Shrine - Navaho * Nesjája Hatàli - Navaho * A Son of the Desert - Navaho * Navaho Flocks * The Blanket Weaver - Navaho * Hastobíga - Navajo Medicine-Man * A Point of Interest - Navaho * Out of the Darkness - Navaho * Sunset in Navaho-Land * Alhkidókihi - Navaho

Acquired from Flury and Company, Seattle, Washington in 1982. This volume was in the collection of Bryson Library and Teachers College, New York, New York, a gift of Mrs. Cleveland Dodge.

Estimate

$60,000 – $90,000

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Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
The Vanishing Race.

Silver print, the image measuring 6x7¾ inches (15.2x19.7 cm.), with Curtis’ signature in ink and his copyright and date in the negative. 1904

Estimate

$4,000 – $6,000

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Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
Holds the Eagle, Hidatsa.

Albumen print, the image measuring 7⅞x6 inches (20x15.2 cm.), with the title in ink, in Curtis’ hand, on verso. Circa 1908

Acquired from the family-owned Edward S. Curtis Archive, 1970s

Estimate

$2,000 – $3,000

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Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
Cheyenne * Peachy To-Die - Hoopa * Pavia - Taos * Woman of the Desert, Navaho.

Together, 4 silver prints, the images measuring 5⅞x7⅞ to 8x6 inches (14.9x20 to 20.3x15.2 cm.), one with Curtis’ title and archive number in his hand, two with titles and numeric notations in pencil, one with the notation “Plate 27, volume I” in pencil, and one with a numeric notation in the negative and a printed title in an unknown hand, on verso. 1904-circa 1920s

These photographs were acquired directly from the family-owned Edward S. Curtis Archive, 1970s

Estimate

$4,000 – $6,000

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Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
A selection of 6 photogravures from The North American Indian.

The prints are from Portfolios One, Three, Four, Six, Eight, and Nineteen, and include three on Japan issue and three on Van Gelder paper. Photogravures, the images measuring approximately 11¾x15¾ inches (29.8x40 cm.), and the reverse, the tissue sheets slightly larger (one on its original mount), the Van Gelder sheets 22x17½ inches (55.9x44.4 cm.), one slightly trimmed, each with Curtis’ printed credit, title, date, plate number, and printer’s credit on recto. 1908-27

Out of the Darkness - Navaho , pl. 37, 1904 * The Prairie Chief , pl. 88, 1907 * The Scout in Winter - Apsaroke , pl. 131, 1908 * Two Moons - Cheyenne , pl. 213, 1910 * Night Scout - Nez Perce , pl. 260, 1910 * The Lone Chief - Cheyenne , pl. 665, 1927

Estimate

$6,000 – $9,000

Pictorialism and early American Landscapes

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Wilson a. bentley (1865-1931)
A group of 4 vintage frost studies.

Silver microphotographs from glass plate negatives, each measuring approximately 3x4 inches (7.6x10.2 cm.). Circa 1903-10

Estimate

$2,500 – $3,500

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Edward steichen (1879-1973)
Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York.

Photogravure, the image measuring 10x12¼ inches (25.4x31.1 cm.), the sheet 15¾x20 inches (40x50.8 cm.); enclosed in the original folder, including the printed Aperture title and colophon sheet with the printing information and dates. 1904; printed 2000

Estimate

$1,500 – $2,500

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Edward steichen (1879-1973)
Steeplechase Day, after the Races, Paris.

Silver print, the image measuring 10⅝x11¾ inches (27x29.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steichen’s credit stamp and the title, negative date, and other notations in pencil on verso. 1907; printed 1950s

Estimate

$6,000 – $9,000

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Edward steichen.
Steichen the Photographer.

(New York): Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1929

Text by Carl Sandburg. With full-page reproductions of photographs by Steichen, including a self-portrait frontispiece and much of Steichen’s classical imagery, printed in handsome sepia tones. 4to, black cloth with the gilt-lettered title on the front cover, lightly worn and soiled. Roth 54; Auer 143; Hasselblad 86. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 925 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY STEICHEN AND SANDBURG.

Originally from the Collection of Grancel Fitz, a contemporary of Steichen's. They were both members of The Society of Photographic Illustrators. Fitz was a well-known advertising photographer in the 1920s and 1930s whose clients included Chevrolet Motor Company, AT&T, Ivory Soap, and Ipana Toothpaste. Before he became an advertising professional, Fitz worked as an amateur pictorialist, submitting his highly aesthetic compositions to international competitions.

Estimate

$1,500 – $2,500

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(edward steichen) (1879-1973)
A portfolio entitled The Early Years 1920-1927.

Introduction by Beaumont Newhall. With 12 beautiful photogravures on BFK Rives Paper by Jon Goodman and Richard Benson, the images measuring 10x12 inches (25.4x39.5 cm.), and smaller, the sheets 20x15¼ inches (50.8x38.7 cm.). Folio-sized gilt-lettered Indian tussah silk slipcase; with Mary Steichen Calderone’s and Newhall’s signatures and the edition notation 394 in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. FROM AN EDITION OF 500 SETS. Gordonsville, Georgia: Aperture Publishers, 1900-25; printed 1981

Grand Prix at Longchamp: After the Races, Paris , 1907 * Self-Portrait with Sister, Milwaukee , 1900 * Torso, Paris, 1902 * Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York , 1904 * In Memoriam, New York , 1902 * Steichen and Wife Clara on Their Honeymoon, Lake George, New York , 1903 * Richard Strauss, New York , 1904 * The Flatiron, New York , 1905 * Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France , 1914 * Isadora Duncan at the Portal of the Parthenon, Athens , 1920 * Three Pears and an Apple, France , circa 1921 * Brancusi in His Studio, Paris , 1925

Estimate

$3,000 – $4,500

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Gertrude käsebier (1852-1934)
Mother and daughter with potted bulb.

Platinum print, the image measuring 9¼x7½ inches (23.5x19.1 cm.), the original paper mount 10¾x8½ inches (27.3x21.6 cm.), with Käsebier’s signature, in white pencil, on print recto. Circa 1910

WITH– Mother and two children. Platinum print, the image measuring 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.), the original deckle-edged mount just slightly larger. Circa 1910

Both prints are from the Family of the Photographer; to the Present Owner

Estimate

$2,000 – $3,000

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Gertrude käsebier (1852-1934)
Man reading a newspaper.

Platinum print, the image measuring 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.), the original mount 14½x11 inches (36.8x27.9 cm.). Circa 1907

From the Family of the Photographer; to the Present Owner

This print was exhibited in Musée d'Orsay's Who's Afraid of Women Photographers, Paris, October 14, 2015–January 24, 2016.

Estimate

$2,500 – $3,500

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Alvin langdon coburn (1882-1966)
A complete set of 20 unbound photogravures from the publication London.

Photogravures, the images measuring 8¼x6¼ inches (21x15.9 cm.), and slightly smaller, the mounts 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.). 1909

Westminster Abbey * The Temple * Waterloo Bridge * Kingsway * Hyde Park Corner * St. Paul’s, From the River * Trafalgar Square * The Tower Bridge * Paddington Canal * Wapping * Leicester Square * Regent’s Canal * From Westminster Bridge * Kensington Gardens, November * The Tower * On the Embankment * Houses of Parliament * London Bridge * The British Lion * St. Paul’s from Ludgate Circus

Estimate

$5,000 – $7,500

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Alfred stieglitz (1864-1946)
Camera Work Number 47.

New York, 1907

Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. This issue the 291 edition, with texts by numerous contributors. 4to, original printed gray wrappers, front cover detached and backstrip split; with Stieglitz’s signed and dated lengthy inscription on the first page, beginning “A morning in room 303” and inscribed to “the young woman” in pencil. THIS COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ.

Stieglitz's long inscription reads as follows: A Morning Room 303 // A young woman wants one // of my New York photographs - // I have[,] if any ---- // I wonder why does she // seek one of those photographs // I wonder why I have if // Any --- // If I were photographing // would the young woman be Seeking the Photograph? // "What is" 291 "?" --- // And here is Room 303 // A morning in the Room

Estimate

$2,000 – $3,000

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