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Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals

Print
1959
National Portrait Gallery
Antonio Rudolfo Frasconi
Roland Hayes

Roland Hayes

Photograph
c. 1962
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Clara Sipprell
Althea Gibson

Althea Gibson

Photograph
1958 (printed 1983)
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Carl Van Vechten
Judy Garland

Judy Garland

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c. 1955
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Ernst Haas
Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson

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c. 1958
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Don Freeman
Cole Porter

Cole Porter

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November 1954 (printed 1987)
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Frances McLaughlin-Gill
Bruno Walter

Bruno Walter

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c. 1950-1960
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Suzanne Carvallo Schulein
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

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c. 1954
National Portrait Gallery
Lisette Model
Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey

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1950
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Boris Chaliapin
Mario Lanza

Mario Lanza

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1951
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Boris Chaliapin
Jazz

Jazz

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c. 1960
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William Sharp
Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

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1959
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Arnold A. Newman
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

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1958
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Hans Namuth
Nat

Nat "King" Cole, Jack Palance, and Gig Young

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1954
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Sid Avery
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Positive Transparency
February 1954
National Portrait Gallery
David Daniel Geary

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