New York: A. F. Bradley, [circa 1905-06]. A fine photographic portrait of one of the great men of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920), by one of the prominent portrait photographers of New York society at the turn of the century, Alvin F. Bradley. Bradley (1862-1948) and his Bradley Studio.....
N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960]. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher (1921-2006), a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded, but there were at least two: this one and a similar one.....
[San Francisco: William Dassonville], 1915. A rare and fine photographic portrait of the prominent California poet George Sterling (1869-1926), taken by the prominent California photographer, William Dassonville (1879-1957) and inscribed to Dassonville by Sterling in the lower left corner of the image: "Dear Dassonville: This is the best picture ever.....