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A work made of woodblock print; double-page preface from book.

Preface, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)", 1789

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquer-paper-strip wrapped cotton, tubular 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; silk-wrapped cotton ball and re-plied silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton fringe tassels.

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

A work made of patterned side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave with wrapping outing wefts (tsuzure).

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

A work made of pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, slit and single dovetail tapestry weave (tsuzure); lining: silk, plain weave with “crepe-like” wefts (kabe-ito wefts); sewn with front and lining matched in size (tachikiri awase); silk, running “controlling” stitches along all edges.

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

A work made of mon side: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered–paper strip wrapped cotton in laidwork and couching; patterned side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered–paper strip wrapped cotton and wrapped silk, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure); sewn with lining extending beyond front equally along edges of all sides (shihôhi); silk, running “controlling” stitches along all edges; corner: silk cords of 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core; 1:1 oblique interlaced over silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk replied fringe tassels.

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

A work made of mon side: wool, plain weave; fulled (gorfukuren); embroidered with silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in laidwork, couching and paper padded couching; lined (recently) with silk, plain weave; sewn with front and lining matched in size (tachikiri awase).

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868), early 19th century

A work made of pattered side: wool, plain weave; fulled (gorofukuren); embroidered with silk and gold- and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper- strip wrapped cotton in cross, and single satin stitches; laidwork and paper padded couching; lined with silk, palin weave (possibly dyed with safflower (beni)); sewn with front and lining matched in size (tackikiri awase); silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges.

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868), early 19th century

A work made of mon side: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by areas of weft-float faced 1:3 'z' twill interlacings; embroidered with silk, laidwork and couching lined with silk, warp-float 4:1 satin weave (shusu); sewn with front and lining matched in size (tachikiri awase); silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges.

Fukusa (Gift Cover), early Meiji period (1868–1912), 1868/83

A work made of silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton and silver leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave (kesi); lined; tasseled.

Fukusa (Gift Cover), late Edo period (1789–1868), 1801/25

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled, 1971

José Lopez

A work made of chromogenic print.

El Paso's Second Ward, c. 1966

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, c. 1960

Stephen Deutch

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, c. 1955–1980

Charles Harbutt

A work made of uratchi etching paper with photographic emulsion and pencil drawing.

Nude, March 1966

Keith Smith

A work made of paint on illustration board.

Kroch's and Brentano's Party and Gift Center, Chicago, Illinois, Presentation Drawing, c. 1962

Coder Taylor Associates

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, 1962/86

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

San Francisco, 1968

Eve Sonneman

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, c. 1960/63

Fred Beckman

A work made of lithograph on ivory laid paper.

Priam - I Come Now and I Bring You Gifts Beyond Number, plate 54 from Drawings for The Iliad, 1962

Meriden Gravure Company

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Buddy Zahn, Gunn, and Odum; (The Walls), from the series "Conversations with the Dead", 1968

Danny Lyon

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