Clara Taggert McChesney
Untitled (String Hanging from Nail)
Motor Bikers
Jazz Band
Thomas Hart Benton [1889-1975] in His Studio
Untitled [Dried Animal Skull in Cypress Roots]
Rosas [Lacas de Michoacan]
Gutzon Borglum [1871-1941] Working at Mount Rushmore
Portrait of Elise Cavanna
Moki Hairdresser, Walpi, Arizona.
Detroit
Easter Sunday
Christ (Detail), January 1987
Tuolumne Meadows
Frank Duvenek [1848-1919] and Henry Farny [1947-1916] in the Studio, Cincinnati, Ohio
Reginald Marsh [1898-1954] Drawing in His Studio
5¢ a Cue
After Watkins
Orphée [Portrait of Jean Cocteau]
Star in the Palm on My Hand
Carter Inauguration, Washington, D.C.
Grand Canon of the Colorado, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
Jean Cocteau’s Painting Comes to Life
Metabolism
Mission District, Campbell Truck, No. 10
Monna Alfau [Texidor]
Untitled Photogram
Approach to the Emporium, San Francisco
Henry Farny [1947-1916] and Frank Duvenek [1848-1919] in the Studio, Cincinnati, Ohio
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Yasuo Kuniyoshi [1893-1953] in His New York Studio
Rayograph
Smoking
Charles Sheeler [1883-1965] Painting in His Studio
Morning Rush Hour, San Francisco
John Hillers working on his negatives on the Aquarius Plateau, Utah
Oklahoma Refugees Quarters in California
Nude with Ring
Ferns, Rain Forest, Hawaii
Sonnets to the Portugeese

Benjamin J. Falk Photography Studio, New York

· Clara Taggert McChesney · Vintage carbon print · ca. 1895

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