Van Vechten, Carl. Photograph Collection
Descriptive Summary
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- Van Vechten, Carl. Photograph Collection
- Dates
- 1932-1956
- Language
- Documents in English
- Size
- 21 linear feet (7 boxes)
- Repository
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Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research CenterUniversity of Chicago Library1100 East 57th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
- Abstract
- The Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection consists of 347 mounted photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten between 1932 and 1956. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of artists, entertainers and other prominent subjects. A smaller portion of the collection is an assortment of American landscapes.
Information on Use
Access
The collection is open for research.
Citation
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Carl Van Vechten. Photograph Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Biographical Note
Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American photographer, writer, and graduate of the University of Chicago. A music and dance critic for the New York Times, he was also a patron for many of the most prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. It was in the 1930s, after nearly 25 years in New York that he began taking portrait photographs. Among his subjects were Aaron Copland, Philip Johnson, , Georgia O’Keefe, Diego Rivera, Gertrude Stein, and Alfred Stieglitz (photographs of all of whom are included in the collection here). When Gertrude Stein died, van Vechten became her literary executor, bringing into print many of her unpublished works. Van Vechten’s papers are now held by the Bieneke at Yale University.
Scope Note
The collection includes studio portraits and pictures of the American landscape. Each image is described and includes the date the photograph was taken.
Series I consists primarily of pictures of people affiliated with the arts, including musicians, dancers, artists, and literati. Most are individual portraits but a few show people in pairs. Included are also a number of self-portraits.
Series II includes pictures of Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
Indexed Terms
INVENTORY
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- Mercedes de Acosta, 3/8/35
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- Mercedes de Acosta, 3/8/35
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- Judith Anderson, 9/28/32
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- Sherwood Anderson, 11/29/33
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- Sherwood Anderson, 11/29/33
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- Ann Andrews, 10/26/32
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- George Antheil, 2/13/34
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- Elsie Arden, 8/15/33
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- Tallulah Bankhead, 1/25/34
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- Tallulah Bankhead, 1/25/34
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- Tallulah Bankhead, 1/25/34
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- John Beckett, 3/16/34
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- Fred Beckman, 3/10/35
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- Edla Frankan-Benjamen (Mrs. John Benjamen), 10/15/34
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- Edla Frankan-Benjamen (Mrs. John Benjamen), 10/15/34
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- Edla Frankan-Benjamen (Mrs. John Benjamen), 10/15/34
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- Martin Benson, 1/9/35
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- Martin Benson, 1/9/35
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- Mrs. Martin Benson (Rita Romilly), 10/4/33
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- Rita Piacenza (Mrs. Thomas) Benton, 4/16/1933
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- "Annoda Charan Bhattacharyya", 1/6/33
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- "Annoda Charan Bhattacharyya", 1/6/33
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- "Rajendra Shan-kar," 1/6/33
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- "Vishnudass Shirati," 1/6/33
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- Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 4/9/35
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- Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 4/9/35
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- Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 4/9/35
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- John Boettiger, 4/9/35
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- Joseph Brewer, 1/24/35
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- Mary Bromfield, 11/2/33
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- Erskine Caldwell, 10/1/24
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- Kitty Carlisle, 11/1/33
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- Kitty Carlisle, 11/1/33
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- Tillio Carmichael, 11/29/32
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- Joan Carr, 7/9/32
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- Jo Carstairs, 9/26/33
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- Bertha Case, 5/12/33
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- Waldo de Castro, 11/11/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Ina Claire, 10/31/33
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- Charles Ward Collier, 2/22/35
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- Constance Collier, 12/8/32
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- Aaron Copland, 3/11/32
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- Aaron Copland, 3/11/32
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- Katharine Cornel, 1/10/33
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- Katharine Cornell, 1/10/33
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- Lucia Davidova, 5/2/32
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- Alice de la Mar, 5/2/32
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- Alice de la Mar, 5/2/32
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- Alice de la Mar, 5/2/32
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- Muriel Saunders and Paul Droper, 3/30/32
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- Lillian May Ehrman, 1/24/35
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- Jacob Epstein, 5/28/34
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- Madame Alfred Fabre-Luce, 11/2/33
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- Madame Alfred Fabre-Luce, 11/2/33
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- Madame Alfred Fabre-Luce, 11/2/33
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- Lynn Fontanne, 6/21/32
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- Clarita de Foreville, 10/1/34
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- Bernadine Szold-Fritz, 10/15/34
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- Mary Garden, 12/12/32
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- Mary Garden, 12/12/32
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- Mary Garden, 12/12/32
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- Mary Garden, 12/12/32
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- Mary Garden, 12/12/32
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- Mary Garden, 12/12/32
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- Madame B. Gay, 12/29/33
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- Harry Glynn, 4/30/32
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- Julian Green, 11/11/33
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- Julian Green, 11/11/33
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- Julian Green, 11/11/33
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- Emilie Grigsy, 4/6/34
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- Monroe (Rody) Hall, 4/16/34
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- Louise Hellstrom, 5/2/33
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- Louise Hellstron, 5/2/33
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- Louise Hellstrom, 5/2/33
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- Louise Hellstrom, 5/2/33
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- Louise Hellstrom, 5/2/33
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- Hedda Hopper, 10/18/34
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- Geny Hoy, 7/10/32
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- Tom Howard, 2/14/34
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- Julia Hoyt, 3/1/33
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- Elizabeth Hull, 10/18/34
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- Fannie Hurst, 11/29/32
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- Jose Iturbi, 11/21/33
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- Jose Iturbi, 11/21/33
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- Jose Iturbi, 11/21/33
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- Philip Johnson, 1/18/33
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- "Spud" (Willard) Johnson, 10/26/34
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- Lincoln Kirsten, 5/8/33
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- Lincoln Kirsten, 5/8/33
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- Victor Kraft, 4/5/35
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- Gaston Lachaise, 5/26/33
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- Laurence Langner, 2/13/34
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- Armina Marshall and Laurence Langner, 4/26/32
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- Philip Langner, 5/16/32
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- Philip Langner, 5/16/32
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- Eyre de Lanux, 12/28/33
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- Eyre de Lanux, 12/28/33
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- Francis Lederer, 12/20/32
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- Francis Lederer, 12/20/32
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- Francis Lederer, 12/20/32
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- Francis Lederer, 12/20/32
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- Francis Lederer, 12/20/32
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- Francis Lederer, 12/20/32
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- Auriol Lee, 10/2/34
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- Alfred de Liagre, Jr., 5/8/33
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- Goddard Lieberson, 10/6/32
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- Goddard Lieberson, 10/6/32
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- Leonora Lindsley, 10/29/33
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- Lorna Lindsley, 12/29/33
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- Makel Luhan, 4/12/34
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- Alfred Lunt, 5/23/32
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- Alfred Lunt, 6/21/32
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- Alfred Lunt, 6/21/32
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- Tom Mabry, 11/19/33
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- Tom Mabry, 11/17/33
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- Tom Mabry, 11/17/33
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- Kenneth Macpherson, 1/9/34
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- Kenneth Macpherson, 1/9/34
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- Kenneth Macpherson, 1/9/34
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- Esther Marinoff, 9/14/32
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- Fania Marinoff, 6/20/32
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- Jacob Marinoff, 9/14/32
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- Jacob Marinoff, 9/14/32
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- Jacob Marinoff, 9/14/32
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- Fritzi Massay, 12/17/34
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- Dr. Gerbais Warc McAuliffe, 11/23/33
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- Colin McPhee, 4/6/35
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- Jane Belo McPhee, 4/6/34
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- A.K. Mills, 11/29/33
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- A.K. Mills, 11/29/33
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- Lathrop Mitchell, 5/2/33
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- Lathrop Mitchell, 5/12/33
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- Lathrop Mitchell, 5/12/33
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- Lathrop Mitchell, 5/12/33
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- Lathrop Mitchell, 5/16/33
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- Lathrop Mitchell, 5/16/33
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- Benno Moiseiwitsch, 12/6/34
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- Benno Moiseiwitsch, 12/6/34
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- Grace Moore, 1/5/33
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- Grace Moore, 1/5/33
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- Grace Moore and Val Parera, 1/5/33
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- Helen Morgan, 6/23/32
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- John Mosher, 1/27/34
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- Dudley Murphy, 10/4/33
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- Nils Nelson, 8/26/32
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- Ada Fitch Neyland, 9/5/32
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- Ada Fitch Neyland, 9/5/32
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- Lewis Fitch Neyland, 1/14/35
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- Robert Reese Neyland, 1/20/35
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- Robert Neyland, Jr., 1/20/35
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- Nikolas Nobokoff, 2/23/34
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- Vincent Obedencia, 10/12/33
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- Vincent Obedencia, 10/12/33
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- Vincent Obedencia, 10/12/33
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- Vincent Obedencia, 10/12/33
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- Georgia O’Keefe, 2/22/35
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- Douglas Parmentier, 4/6/33
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- Douglas Parmentier, 4/6/33
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- Allen Parter, 10/20/33
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- Diego Rivera, 3/19/32
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- Tom Rutherford, 9/19/32
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- Marion Saportas (Malibu), 7/19/32
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- Marion Saportas (Malibu), 7/19/32
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- Marion Saportas, 10/1/34
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- Kati Seabrook, 11/14/34
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- Gilbert Seldes (and Amanda), 10/7/32
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- Tonio Selwart, 9/21/32
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- Tonio Selwart, 9/21/32
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- Angevine Shoffer, 9/7/32
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- Susan and Mary Shoffer (children of Van Vechten and Angevine Shoffer), 11/9/34
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- Van Vechten Shoffer, 9/7/32
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- Consuelo Sides, 4/2/35
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- Freddo Sides, 4/2/35
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- Lee Simonson, 11/23/33
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- T.R. Smith, 11/2/33
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- T.R. Smith, 11/2/33
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- Gertrude Stein (Belignin, France), 6/13/34
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- Gertrude Stein (Belignin, France), 6/13/34
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- Gertrude Stein, 11/4/34
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- Jack Stephens, 5/26/33
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- Carrie Stettheimer, 10/8/32
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- Ettie Stettheimer, 10/8/32
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- Alfred Stieglitz, 4/19/35
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- Esther Strarkey, 2/16/34
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- Esther Strarkey, 2/16/34
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- Sandor Szabo, 1/19/33
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- Sandor Szabo, 1/19/33
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- Sandor Szabo, 1/19/33
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- Sandor Szabo, 1/19/33
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- Sandor Szabo, 1/19/33
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- Sandor Szabo, 1/19/33
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- Deems Taylor, 12/6/32
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- Alice B. Toklas, 6/13/34
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- Alice B. Toklas, 11/4/34
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- Alice B. Toklas, 1/4/35
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- Gene Tunney, 4/25/34
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- Gene Tunney, 4/25/34
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- Gene Tunney, 4/25/34
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- Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 8/29/33
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- Addie Lawton Van Vechten (Cedar Rapids), 11/8/34
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- Carl Van Vechten, 4/16/32
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- Carl Van Vechten, 5/20/32
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- Carl Van Vechten, 9/5/33
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- Carl Van Vechten, 3/6/34
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- Carl Van Vechten, 3/9/34
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- Carl Van Vechten, 4/16/34
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- Carl Van Vechten, 5/8/34
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- Carl Van Vechten, 9/27/34
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- Carl Van Vechten, 10/2/34
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- Duane Van Vechten, 7/15/33
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- Duane Van Vechten, 2/23/35
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- Duane Van Vechten, 2/23/35
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- Duane Van Vechten, 2/23/36
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- Arthur Walker, 11/29/33
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- Annie von Wasserman, 12/10/34
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- Edward Wasserman, 4/11/32
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- Edward Wasserman, 2/23/33
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- Edward Wasserman, 1/8/35
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- Beveridge Webster, 11/28/34
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- Beveridge Webster, 11/28/34
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- Marguerite Wenner-Gren, 11/22/34
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- Alma Wertheim, 4/19/33
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- James Whitall, 3/26/35
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- Mildred Whitall, 3/26/35
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- Richard Whitall, 3/26/35
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- Richard Whitall, 3/26/35
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- Raoul Whitfield, 9/21/33
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- Mrs. Raoul Whitfield, 9/21/33
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- Emily Davies, SEE Mrs. Raoul Whitfield
- Mrs. W.H. Vanderbilt, SEE Mrs. Raoul Whitfield
- Mrs. S. Thayer, SEE Mrs. Raoul Whitfield
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- Emily Whitgield and her daughter, Emily Vanderbilt, 9/21/33
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- ‘Steve’ Wiman, 4/10/33
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- Victor Wittgentstein, 2/14/33
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- Tires, 7/21/26
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- The Closed Bar, 3/5/32
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- One Way, 7/24/38
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- The Beach at Shorehaus, 7/16/39
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- Bellow Window, 3/21/52
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- Clothes Line from Doctors Hospital, 8/3/55
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- Nathan Hale at Yale, 8/8/36
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- The Yale Bowl, 8/8/36
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- The Lake Front, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 11/8/34
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- View from Van Vechten Shoppers Country House, Near Marion, Iowa, 10/28/37
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- Beach Trees, Maine, 7/27/36
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- Beach Trees, Maine, 7/27/36
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- The Desert of Maine, 7/27/36
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- The Witch’s House, Maine, 7/27/36
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- The Witch’s House, Maine, 7/23/36
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- Bar Harbor, Maine, 7/23/36
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- Near Thunder Hole, Bar Harbor, Maine, 7/25/36
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- Dog Show, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 25, 1936
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- Wharf, Bar Harbor, 7/26/36
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- Wharf, Bar Harbor, 7/26/36
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- House on the Road between Bar Harbor and Rockland, Maine, 7/27/36
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- Victorian House, Brunswick Maine, 7/22/36
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- The Sea near Thunder Hole, 7/23/36
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- The Sea near Thunder Hole, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 7/23/36
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- The Sea near Thunder Hole, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 7/23/36
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- The Sea and Thunder Hole, Mount Desert Island, 7/23/36
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- The Sea near Thunder Hole, Mount Desert Island, 7/23/36
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- Boy asleep, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 7/23/36
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- Near Thunder Hole Mount Desert Island, 7/25/36
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- Somes Houses, Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 7/26/36
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- Hitching Post, Antique Shop near Rockland, Maine, 7/27/36
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- Cock at Antique Store near Rockland, Maine, 7/27/36
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- At an Antique Store Near Rockland, Maine, 7/27/56
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- At an Antique Store Near Rockland, Maine, 7/27/36
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- Haying in Massachusetts, 7/28/36
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- Massachusetts Barn, 7/28/36
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- Trinity Church, Boston, 7/19/36
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- Trinity Church, Boston (detail), 7/19/37
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- Trinity Church, Boston (detail), 7/19/36
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- Longfellow’s House, Cambridge, Mass, 7/18/36
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- Memorial Chapel, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, 7/18/36
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- Spire, Congregational Church, Chatham, Cape Cod, 7/30/36
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- House on Cape Cod, 7/30/26
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- Old Windham, Easthorn, Cape Cod, July 31, 1936
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- Sandwich, Cape Cod, 8/1/36
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- Provincetown Pier with Gulls, 7/31/36
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- Provincetown Pier and Gulls, 7/31/36
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- Indian in Provincetown, Cape Cod, 7/31/36
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- House in Provincetown, 7/31/36
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- Original Provincetown Theater where O’Neil plays were first presented, Wharf in Provincetown, Cape Cod, 7/31/36
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- The Alcott House in Concord, 7/16/36
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- Gloucester, 7/28/36
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- Marblehead, Massachusetts, 7/20/38
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- Marblehead, 7/20/36
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- Nantucket Tanks, August 2, 1936
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- Nantucket Street, 8/2/36
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- Nantucket, 8/2/36
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- Nantucket Doorway, 8/2/36
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- Door in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 7/28/36
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- Door in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 7/28/36
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- House in x, Mass, 7/28/36
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- Lawn Dog, Sudbury, Massachusetts, 7/16/36
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- Atlantic City -- Idyll, 6/13/37
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- John Marques at Taos, 7/15/33
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- Boy at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 7/15/33
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- Boy at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, 7/17/33
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- Shaker Barn at Hancock, New York, 7/15/36
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- Commerce and Religion (NYC)
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- Ironwork on Bench Street, NYC, 5/30/32
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- Ironwork, New York City, 5/30/32
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- The Eagle with One Head, Bronx Zoo, NY, 8/4/32
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- Prometheus Fountain, Radio City, New York, 7/21/34
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- Atlas, Radio City, NYC, 5/3/37
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- Atlas, Radio City, NYC, 5/3/37
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- Atlas, Radio City, NYC, 5/3/37
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- Boys at Maine Monument, Columbus Circle, 9/3/37
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- Monument to Maya de Peystes, Bowling Green, NYC, 3/9/38
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- View from Joseph Cassidy’s Window, Lower Manhattan, 3/9/38
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- Polar Bear, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 7/25/38
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- In the Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, New York City, 7/30/38
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- In the Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, New York City, 7/30/38
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- Figure, The Cloisters, NYC, 9/6/38
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- The Façade of a Harlem Tenement, Watching the West Indian Parade, 8/22/39
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- View from 9D (146 CPW) in the Rain, 7/9/54
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- View from 146 CPW (9D), 5/24/54
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- View from 9D-146 CPW, 6/18/54
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- View from 9d (146 CPW), 8/4/54
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- View from 146 CPW (9D) down, 8/16/54
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- View from 9D, 146 CPW, 1/16/55
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- View from 9D, 146 CPW, 1/16/55
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- View from 146 Central Park West (9D) in the Winter, 12/21/55
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- View of Central Park West from 9d, 146 Central Park West, 3/20/56
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- View of Central Park from 9D CPW, 3/21/56
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- View of Central Park from 9D, 146 Central Park West, 3/21/56
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- View from Doctor’s Hospital Window including Gracie Mansion and Triborough Bridge, 4/14/56
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- Seeing the World’s Fair, Flushing, 9/11/56
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- The United State Hotel (detail), Saratoga Springs, 7/14/36
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- Grand Union Hotel (detail), Saratoga Springs, 7/14/36
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- Victoria Statue in the Park, Saratoga, 7/14/36
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- In the Garden of the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Diana by Manship, 9/17/33
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- Detail of Fountain at Head of Parkway, Phil, 1/30/38
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- Detail of Statue to Washington, Head of Parkway, Philadelphia, 1/30/38
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- Buffalo Head, Detail of Statue Group to Washington, Head of Parkway, Philadelphia, 1/30/38
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- Fountain in Logan Square, Philadelphia, 4/2/39
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- The Water Lilies in the pool in front of Horticultural Hall, Fairmont Park, Phil, May 2, 1939
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- Horticultural Hall and the Rhododendrons, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, 5/22/39
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- Fountain, Providence, R.I., 8/4/36
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- Barn between Providence and Newport, 8/5/36
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- Untitled, 7/28/36
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- Fisherman’s Bay, 7/25/36