This series consists of photographs printed or collected by and/or given to Rothstein throughout his career. A significant number of these photographs are copy prints, related to volumes of "masterpieces" from late 19th and early 20th century photographic history, published by the Photographic Historical Society of New York for sale to the general public. Photographs were selected, reprinted, and compiled into portfolios by Rothstein, and includes work by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Oscar Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Matthew Brady, Lewis Hine, and others. This series also includes two sets of complete portfolios. Also included in the series are images by other photographers for >Parade, and other magazines, as well as additional images by other FSA photographers, including John Vachon, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott. Several of the photographs in this series were given as gifts to Rothstein; they frequently have inscriptions or writing on the reverse side of the print. Photographs have been organized alphabetically by creator (last name, first name). Those by unknown or unidentified photographers appear at the end of the series.
Box 37 Folder 01
Springtime, undated
Creator: Lucie Becker
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w; 10 x 12 1/2
Box 37 Folder 02
Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right; hair parted on Lincoln's right, May 1864
LC-USP6-2415-A; Creator: Anthony Berger
Copy print : 1 item : b&w; 8 1/8 x 10 (without mat), 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 (mat)
Box 37 Folder 03
Deck of gun boat, probably "Mendota", 1861-1865
Creator: Matthew Brady
Copy print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10 (without mat), 10 1/2 x 13 (mat)
Box 37 Folder 04
First day at school, undated
Creator: Charlotte Brooks
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 05
Sir John Herschel, 1867
Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron
Copy print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 06
[Hands emerging from ice], undated
Creator: Max Destov
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 07
[Eleanor Roosevelt greeting Eskimo woman], undated
John Durniak
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 08
Gathering water lilies, 1886
Creator: Peter Henry Emerson
Copy print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 09
Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill, Pennsylvania, 1935 Nov
LC-USF34-001167-A ; Creator: Walker Evans
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 10
Ferry and wharf goods, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936 Feb
LC-USF34-001301-A; Creator: Walker Evans
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 11
Photographer's window of penny portraits. Birmingham, Alabama., 1936
LC-USF342-008097-A ; Creator: Walker Evans
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 12
Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home. Hale County, Alabama., 1935 or 1936
LC-USF342-008147-A ; Creator: Walker Evans
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 13
San Francisco Fire and Earthquake, 1906
Creator: Arnold Genthe
Copy print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 14
Before the operation, undated
Creator: James Hansen
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 15
[Assorted photographs of Tom's Snooker Parlor, Roff, Oklahoma] [4], 1983
Creator: R. Gene Harrison
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 8 x 10 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 16
Miss Chalmers and brother, 1848
Creator: David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
Copy print : 5 items : b&w; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 17
Immigrant Italian family, Ellis Island, 1905
Creator: Lewis Hine
Copy print : 9 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 18
Power house mechanic working on a steam pump, 1920
Creator: Lewis Hine
Copy print : 4 items : b&w ; 7 x 10 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 19
Robert, John, and Edward Kennedy, 1957
Creator: Douglas Jones; Published: "The rise of the brothers Kennedy," produced by Laura Bergquist, Look, v. 21, no. 16 (Aug. 6, 1957), p. 14, 19-24, 27
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 20
U.S. Air Force, 1952
Creator: Douglas Jones
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 21
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, age thirty-two. Nipomo, California., 1936 Feb or Mar
LC-USF34-009058-C; Creator: Dorothea Lange; Alternate title: Migrant Mother
Photographic print : 7 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 22
Hoe culture, or Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, 1936 Jun
LC-USF34-009238-C; Creator: Dorothea Lange
Photographic print : 6 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 23
Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California., 1935 Jun
LC-USF-002280-E; Creator: Dorothea Lange
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 24
Plantation owner. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1936 Jun
LC-USF34-009599-C; Creator: Dorothea Lange
Photographic print : 5 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 25
Street meeting. San Francisco, California, 1936 Aug
LC-USF34-009727-D; Creator: Dorothea Lange
Photographic print : 5 items : b&w ; 8 x 10 or smaller
Box 37 Folder 26
Maryknoll nun, undated
Creator: Bob Lerner
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 27
[Salvation Army trainees playing musical instruments], 1952
Creator: Bob Lerner; Published: "God's shock troops," produced by Jack Star, Look, v. 17, no. 25 (Dec. 15, 1953), p. 57-60
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 28
An organ deposited by the flood on a farm near Mount Vernon, Indiana, 1937 Feb
LC-USF341- 010435-B; Creator: Russell Lee
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 37 Folder 29
Holdings of the Long Bell Lumber Company, Cowlita County, Washington, 1941 Oct
LC-USF-0013177-M2; Creator: Russell Lee
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 30
Sarah Bernhardt, 1859
Creator: Nadar (Gaspar Félix Tournachon)
Copy print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 37 Folder 31
Body of a Confederate soldier near Mrs. Alsop's House, Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, 1864 May
LC-B811-723; Creator: Timothy O'Sullivan
Copy print : 1 item : b&w; 8 1/8 x 10 (without mat), 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 (mat)
Box 37 Folder 32
[Close detail of colored feathers], 1987
Creator: Rosamond Wolff Purcell
Photographic print : 1 item : color ; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 (without mat), 11 x 14 (with mat)
Box 38 Folder 01
The two ways of life, 1857
Creator: Oscar Rejlander
Copy print : 6 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 02
Fading Away, 1858
Creator: Henry Peach Robinson
Copy print : 6 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 03
New England summer, undated
Creator: Kosti Ruohomaa
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 04
Stone wall at foot of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1863 May
LC-B8184-605; Creator: A.J. Russell
Copy print : 1 item : b&w; 8x 10 (without mat), 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 (mat)
Box 38 Folder 05
Kentucky coal miner, Jenkins, Kentucky, 1935 Oct
LC-USF33-006194-M3; Creator: Ben Shahn
Photographic print : 5 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 38 Folder 06
Linworth Methodist Church, Linworth, Ohio, 1938 Aug
Creator: Ben Shahn
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 38 Folder 07
Linworth Methodist Church, Linworth, Ohio [alternate view], 1938 Aug
Creator: Ben Shahn
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 38 Folder 08
A deputy with a gun on his hip during the September 1935 strike in Morgantown, West Virginia, 1938 Sep
LC-USF33-006121-M3; Creator: Ben Shahn
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 09
Safe at third, undated
Creator: Paul Siegel
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 10
John Quincy Adams, 1848
Creator: Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes
Copy print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 11
The Steerage, 1907
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz
Copy print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 38 Folder 12
Navajo winter, undated
Creator: Earl Thiesen
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 3/4 x 13
Box 38 Folder 13
[Phan Ti Kim Phuc running down road near Trang Bang, Vietnam], 1972
Creator: Nick Ut
Copy print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 38 Folder 14
[Profile view of Frank Lloyd Wright], 1957
Creator: Michael A. Vaccaro; Published: "A visit with Frank Lloyd Wright," produced by John Peter, Look, v. 21, no. 19 (Sept. 17, 1957), p. 28-37
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 3/4 x 13
Box 38 Folder 15
[Carl Sandburg with guitar and family], 1956
Creator: John Vachon; Published: "A visit with Carl Sandburg, produced by Thomas B. Morgan," Look, v. 20, no. 14 (July 10, 1956), p. 95-100
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 16
Fire in village, Poland, undated
Creator: John Vachon; Published: "The Quakers," by William Houseman, Look, v. 13, no. 15 (July 19, 1949), p. 38-44
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 1/2 x 15 1/4
Box 38 Folder 17
FSA tenant purchase borrower and family, Crawford County, Illinois, 1940 May
LC-USF34-060986-D; Creator: John Vachon
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 38 Folder 18
Quaker, 1949
Creator: John Vachon
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 19
Center of town, Woodstock, Vermont. "Snowy night", 1940 Mar
LC-USF34-053307-D; Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 38 Folder 20
Contraband at City Point, Virginia, 1861-1865
Creator: unknown
Copy print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10 (without mat), 10 1/2 x 13 (mat)
Box 38 Folder 21
General Philip Sheridan and his staff, 1861-1865
LC-BH841-3; Creator: unknown
Copy print : 1 item ; b&w ; 8 x 10 (without mat, 10 1/2 x 13 (mat)
Box 38 Folder 22
General Robert E. Lee, 1861-1865
Creator: unknown
Copy print : 1 item ; b&w ; 8 x 10 (without mat, 10 1/2 x 13 (mat)
Box 38 Folder 23
General Ulysses S. Grant at his headquarters in Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1864
LC-USZ61-903; Creator: Unknown
Copy print : 1 item ; b&w ; 8 x 10 (without mat, 10 1/2 x 13 (mat)
Box 38 Folder 24
[Girl in white smock standing in field], undated, before 1980
Creator: unknown; Gift from Chuck Crews, 1980
Photographic print : 3 items : 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 38 Folder 25
[Photomontage with Franklin Delano Roosevelt], undated
Creator: unknown
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 38 Folder 26
Powder monkey by gun of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, S.C., 1861-1865
LC-B8171-4016; Creator: unknown
Copy print : 1 item ; b&w ; 8 x 10 (without mat, 10 1/2 x 13 (mat)
Box 38 Folder 27
[Roy Stryker getting tickled by FSA photographers at party], undated
Creator: unknown
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 9
Box 38 Folder 28
[Tenant farmer sitting in field], undated
Creator: unknown
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 38 Folder 29
[View of five men standing in front of lumber], undated
Creator: unknown
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 38 Folder 30
A Portfolio of Masterpieces (New York: Photographic Prints by Berkeley K&L), undated
Portfolio with photographic prints enclosed : 2 items