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1948, Book cover for Willard, D. Morgan, 1948 Photo Cartoons: A Book of Wit, Humor and Photo Drollery, (A Morgan & Morgan Book), Book cover, Private collection of Robert E. Jackson, LL/118878
1948, [Photo finish of the 100-meter dash at the 1948 Olympic games, won by Harrison Dillard--Also running are E. McDonald Bailey, Alastair McCorquodale, Lloyd Berrington LaBeach, Barney Ewell, and Mel Patton], Photo finish photograph, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/116954
Kodak (artwork and design) Gary Dineen (photograph), 1948, Stop here for Kodak Verichrome film (USA Full-size Kodak Girl), Advertising cut-out, Gary Dineen / East Edge Gallery, LL/121711
Unidentified photographer, 1948, International Agreement on Narcotic Drugs Reached in Paris, Black and white photograph, United Nations Photo, LL/43123
Unidentified photographer, 1948, András Kocsis's studio, Budapest, Hungary showing a relief which was later erected in Mezotúr, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83089
Unidentified photographer (Russian), 1948, [Josef Stalin, Sergey Kirov, and Nikolay Shvenrik] in A History of the U.S.S.R., part 3 (Moscow, 1948), Halftone, Private collection of David King, LL/54307
Wayne Miller, 1948, Young Ice Man, with World War II Ribbons On His Jacket. The Special Leather Shoulder Pads Allowed Him to Carry Ice Up Apartment Stairs. A Placard in the Window Indicated How Much Ice was Needed, Gelatin silver print, Lee Gallery, LL/3254
Chim, 1948 (taken) 2007 (publication), An orphaned girl, Tereska, traumatized by her experiences in German concentration camps, makes a troubled attempt to draw a picture of her home, Poland; 1948, [Magnum Founders], Platinum print, bound into a book, Verso Limited Editions, LL/28606
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1948, Book cover for Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1948, Beautiful Jaipur, (The Information Bureau, Governement of Jaipur), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/55834
Keld Helmer-Petersen, 1948, Book cover for Keld Helmer-Petersen, 1948, 122 Farvefotografier [Color Photographs], (Schoenberg), Book cover, Google Books, LL/52758
Leonard McCombe, 1948, Book cover for Leonard McCombe "Menschen erleiden Geschichte" With text by Bill Richardson (Zürich: Atlantis-Verlag, (1948)), Book cover, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/48040
Man Ray, 1948, Exhibition catalogue cover for Man Ray, 1948, (Copley Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, 1948), Exhibition catalogue cover, Private collection of Jeff Nolte, LL/129458
Philippe Halsman, 1948, Book cover for Philippe Halsman "The FrenchMan. A photographic interview with Fernandel" (Simon and Schuster Publishers, 1948), Book cover, Piasa, LL/46361
Robert Capa, 1948, Book cover for John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal, with pictures by Robert Capa, (New York: The Viking Press, 1948), Book cover, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/51830
Robert Doisneau, 1948, Book cover for Robert Doisneau et al., 1948, Rivières & Cours d'eau, (Paris: Lumen Publishers), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/53661
Maurice Tabard, 1948, Cartier-Bresson et la Geometrie, Typed text segments affixed to paper recto and verso, with illustrations in ink by Tabard and mounted photograph on recto, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/59833