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4 Prints by William Edwin Booth

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4 Prints by William Edwin Booth

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Auction Date:2004 Oct 08 @ 21:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:United States
. "MINE EYES HAVE SEEN HIS GLORY." Four 7 1/4" x 5 1/4" brown-toned gelatin silver prints by William Edwin Booth. Accompanied by an article in the Richmond Virginia Times-Dispatch, March 10, 1993 about an exhibition of the 85 year-old photographer's work presented by the Virginia Historical Society, from a donation of the body of Booth's work to the Society in 1991. This is a portrait of "lady Sarah, Goochland, Va." These are four stages in the printing of this photograph, mounted two to a page, with pencil notations by Booth: a) the paper negative, b) the "obverse of (a) with hand work control to lighten _____ on final print," c) his letter "b", "note clapboard siding on house, " and d) Finished print. "Note clapboard siding has been obliterated."