Be-hold 44 - Session 1

"CUT AT ALTA, LOOKING EAST." No. 787, on beige mount by Muybridge, Helios Flying Studio. "Central Pacific Railroad" overprinted...

Copy views on large yellow mounts, similar to the "Famous Black Hills Views" Lots 87 - 90. Super street view with lines of Oxen, many esta...

. Large yellow/gray mounts, no imprint but related to previous lot. Wonderful view looking out from under branches at group of cowboys, chuck wagon, a

His no. 86, "Fort Tongass, View from the Fort." Yellow/violet view with advertising verso. Cannon, boat. Minor digs at left of right view.

3 "amateur" views on gray mounts, circa 1900, with typed strip labels on the verso. a) "River boats on beach, St. Michael, Alaska.&qu...

25 sepia views on buff Underwood & Underwood mounts. Some have printed titles, and must have been regularly issued, but most don't and seem...

. Pretty woman covered by her blanket gazes out the window. No. 1114 on buff mount by Littleton View Company seems a nice way to end this section and

Large (48" x 19") hand-colored lithograph mounted on board. The life size face is so life-like I first thought this was an actual photogra...

3 superb salted paper prints, 8" x 6" ovals on individual loose album pages. Pencil numbers on verso probably indicated location in the al...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHINA AND ITS PEOPLE, by John Thompson. 4 volumes, 1873 -1874. Approximately 19" x 14". Interesting and informative text ...

. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4" platinum print by John Claude White. White was the photographer for the Younghusband Military Expedition to Tibet in 190...

7 1/4" x 10" albumen print on album page. No imprint. Domed churches up on hill with broken rampart. Peasant huts below, clouds in sky. Sl...

4 3/4" x 6 1/2" albumen print on album page (probably the same album as previous.) No imprint. Signs for Coffee House and other establishm...

. PALACE OF THE PRESIDENT -- PANAMA, 1877, by Eadweard Muybridge. 5 1/2" x 9 3/8" albumen print. Page 21 from "The Pacific Coast of ...

4 7/8" x 6 7/8" cool-tone gelatin-silver print on mount with A. Streich blindstamp on mount, notations in Spanish on verso. Name of the to...

6" x 4 1/2" blue folder with a blue-toned gelatin silver postcard by Hugo Brehme pasted into the indented area. Inside page is boldly insc...

7 loose album pages with 6 3/8" x 9" toned gelatin silver prints on each side. 10 or 11 scenes from Jamaica, the others from Madeira. Seve...

6 7/8" x 5 1/2" sepia gelatin silver print [mimics albumen] on board mount. A theatrical group. Back row: 4 Indian men, probably Ojibway....

6 1/2" x 9 1/2" red-toned silver print, on rustic double mat, with embossed stamp for Clark & Clark, Roseburg, Oregon. This red toning...

5" x 8 1/2" gelatin-silver print, the Goodyear blimp "Resolute" with Mobilgas emblem. Date stamp on verso May 26. 1936.

10" x 12" sepia gelatin silver print on board, trimmed to the print. No imprint. Chickens hang from the ceiling. Slabs of meat lie on a bl...

6" x 8 1/8" toned print on board mount. Interesting image of a Spanish-American War company cooking in the street. Brownstones in back. &q...

6" x 7 3/4" gelatin silver print, no imprint but title in pen on verso, with number 17816. "Madame Tetrazzini Singing at Lotta's ...

Toned silver photo postcard by E. F. Foley, N.Y., signed by the singer London 1909. I loved the previous image so much I couldn't resist accompa...

. "CHALK CREEK CANON." 10" x 13" rich purple unmounted print by W. H. Jackson, with number "45," title and Denver cre...

11" x 14" toned gelatin silver print. Group at Muir Pass. Camera case on ground, lower right. Probably an early Sierra Club outing. No imp...

7 7/8" x 9 3/4" image area on 11" x 14" sheet. Came with previous lot, and is most likely another Yosemite scene, a larger group...

YOSEMITE SCENE WITH PEOPLE ON HORSEBACK, BY ANSEL ADAMS. 10" x 6 3/8" gelatin silver print, with Adams' Yosemite stamp on verso, titl...

Four toned gelatin silver prints. a) "Mt. Edwards and Sperry Glacier" [pen verso] with figure posed. b) 4068.

5 3/4" X 7 7/8" toned print on textured-surface. No credit, but probably also by Hileman. Rich beautiful print.

5 5/8" x 4" toned silver print in 4-page folder with embossed crown design. Typed label beneath reads "Wonderful Wheeler." He wa...

3 vintage 9" x 7" prints, ca. 1938, of this Italian film actor and physical culturist, One on gray mount, two with mount remnants on verso...

4 photo postcards with the embossed stamp of Navana, London. Stamps of Back and from A. P. Mead on the verso. Mead "discovered" Back at th...

By "Yrélaw." That name is "Walery" in reverse! His signature and numbers in the negative. Two matte 9" x 7" print...

Glossy brown-toned photo postcard.

2 rows of five, the top seen upside down. Color prints with rich applied color. Girl with hoop and toys/ Mother and daughter. These are by "Per...

Another uncut sheet by "Perfect," series 1 and 2. The super-brilliant color and the upside-down arrangement put the sentimentality into a ...

Two uncut sheets, color prints but no applied color. Couple with letter by "EKC" and amorous couple by "Corona." These duplicate...

Close-ups of smiling women with flowers, by "Ela" and "E.P." and a vertical strip of a couple on the beach, with applied color b...

Portfolio of 6 lovely 8" x 6" prints, gravures of very high quality by Henri Manuel, early 1920's, on a silk-like paper that generates...

Wonderful group of 15 vintage prints of this beautiful dancer who was a major cultural figure in pre-WWI US. With her husband Vernon, who died at an e

As one of the partners of Maurice Mouvet, she was part of the popular dance scene of the 1910's, along with the Castles. Their specialty was the...

Collection of 36 gelatin silver and platinum prints of these stars of the silent cinema. Constance was a sensation in D. W. Griffith's INTOLERAN...

Interesting figure from the silent film era. She was in several Ziegfield shows, then some films. At the age of 25, in 1920, she married Mary Pickford

Pair of 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" brown-toned gelatin silver prints by Ira L. Hill, NYC (signed in the negative) of a lovely actress. One is endorse...

Three 11" x 8" gelatin silver prints. Two are endorsed on recto by this lovely dancer "To Hubert with love & best wishes-- Youssi...

13" x 10" matte toned print tipped onto mount, signed in lower right "Cele/ 9 - - 26." Strangely masked below her shoulder, thou...

5" x 7" gelatin silver print. Hine's "Interpretive Photography/ Hastings-on-Hudson" stamp on verso, plus red crayon number.

8" x 10" gelatin silver print, 1942. From Siegel's estate, signed in pencil on verso by Adam Siegel. Evidently this is the only print ...

11 1/4" x 14" gelatin silver print by Gordon Coster, with "Photography Gordon Coster" stamp on verso. My guess is ca. 1960 print.

7 1/2" x 11 1/2" gelatin silver print by Gisèle Freund. 1933 image, probably printed 1950's. Has her copyright stamp, her credit ...

7 1/2" x 11 1/2" gelatin silver print by Gisèle Freund. Her copyright stamp and "Cette photo doit être retourné"...

8" x 10" gelatin silver print by Robert Capa. Various numbers and notations on verso, including Capa's Press stamp, "Debarquement...

8" x 10" gelatin silver print by Robert Capa. His credit stamp, press stamp, "Au sud de Bastogne, 23 - 26 décembre 1944" in...

War ruins in Paris. 10" x 6 5/8" gelatin silver print. Number in red crayon and his Press Credit stamp on verso. Plus a photograph of peop...

8 3/4" x 12" gelatin silver print by Robert Capa. Press caption tipped onto verso" "4. An armed Israeli settler guards a pumping...

7 ¾” x 11 5/8” gelatin silver print of boldly composed subject. Haas’ French credit stamp on verso, and red crayon number.

10" x 8" gelatin silver print by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Various stamps and notations on the verso, including his copyright stamp. Printed ...

10" x 8" gelatin silver print by Henri Cartier-Bresson, stamps and notations on verso like the previous lot.

8" x 12" gelatin silver print by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Stamps, measurements and notations in pencil and crayon on verso. Appears to be a ...

Pair of 11 1/2" x 8" prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson with his copyright stamp on verso. Other blue stamps for Paris Match crossed out. The...

11 3/4" x 9 1/2" gelatin silver print by Robert Doisneau. Title in pen on verso. Another title given in red pen, "le dresseur de colo...

9 3/8" x 7" gelatin silver print by Robert Doisneau. Some pencil notations including "1969" [but printed later] with his "R...

6 7/8" X 10" gelatin silver print by Marc Ribaud. From the Museum of the Revolution in Yenan. Wonderful 1965 image, probably printed later...

8" x 10" gelatin silver print by Margaret Bourke-White. A Nazi functionary and his secretaries who killed themselves fearing they would be...

Fabulous group of five self-portraits, 10" x 8" gelatin silver prints, various Time/Life stamps on verso, with notations on verso. Printe...

. Glamorous portrait of this writer who was a major figure in the intellectual life of NY in the 1940's and following decades, because of her wo...

6" x 5 3/8" gelatin silver print by Héctor Garcia. 1980 print of 1948 image. Some spots on the negative. Possibly slightly trimmed. T...

"GORGE LUIS BORGES CAFÉ 'AUX DEUX MAGOTS' PARIS, OCT 1980." 7" x 5" gelatin silver print portrait of the great writ...

10" x 8" gelatin silver print by Philippe Halsman. Later printing of this 1947 image appears to be signed by Halsman and with his copyrigh...

10" x 8" gelatin silver print by Jim Seymour, with his "PIX" credit stamp on verso. Just a slight "almost" wrinkle on ...

On the set of the film "The Countess from Hong Kong." 8" x 10" gelatin silver print by Alfred Eisenstadt. Used in LIFE April 12,...

7 3/4" x 11 1/4" gelatin silver print by René Burri. This is a 1961 photograph of the great Japanese director taken at the Toho Studi...

14" x 11" gelatin silver print by Philippe Halsman, with his credit stamp (twice) on verso.

14" x 11" gelatin silver print by Philippe Halsman. Startling large close up, interestingly off-center. This 1952 image has Halman's c...

14" x 11" gelatin silver print by Philippe Halsman. Image 1969. Hard to date the print with Halsman's copyright stamp. An emblematic ...

The great black contralto who, with others such as Paul Robeson, paved the way for black performers in high culture. 14" x 11" gelatin sil...

14" x 11" gelatin silver print by Philippe Halsman. From the same shooting session as the previous image, this is a somewhat earlier, more...

. "MINE EYES HAVE SEEN HIS GLORY." Four 7 1/4" x 5 1/4" brown-toned gelatin silver prints by William Edwin Booth. Accompanied b...

Portfolio of 27- 12 1/4" x 10 1/4" gelatin silver prints, mounted, in a loose-leaf binder, within a black cloth-covered portfolio, with t...

No. 142 of an edition of 1000 published by Electra Editrice, Milan, 1980. 12 - 15 1/4' x 11 7.8" prints. In slipcase.

TINA MODOTTI PORFOLIO. No. 322 of an edition of 1000, published by Electra Editice, Milan, 1979. Similar to previous lot.