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(RETOUCHED PRESS PRINTS)
A group of approximately 100 press photographs of various subjects, all with extensive
hand retouching and overpainting.
Comprised of many photographs of animals, performers, and models in costumes, advertising
imagery, trial photographs, and British political figures, including Queen Elizabeth, Winston
Churchill, and the Duke and Duchess ofWindsor. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images ranging
in size from 7
3
/
4
x5
1
/
2
to 10
1
/
2
x8
1
/
2
inches (19.7x14 to 26.7x21.6 cm.), the sheets slightly larger; all
with period retouching and hand painting, on recto, and most with typed press captions, handwritten
notations, and various press agency hand stamps, on verso. 1920s-50s
[2,500/3,500]