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Mary Jane: 1948

November 1948. "Mary Jane, model -- studio experiment. ('NOT TO BE SHOWN' written twice on the box in very large letters.)" 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.

November 1948. "Mary Jane, model -- studio experiment. ('NOT TO BE SHOWN' written twice on the box in very large letters.)" 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.

 

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This is Mary Jane Russell, a Ford model from the late 1940s to the early '60s, and a favorite of photographers Irving Penn and Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

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