New Jersey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-Ho-Kus,_New_Jersey
The third and fifth are views of the Ipatiev Monastry at Kostroma.
The something plasticy is probably ivorine, which can go back to the end of the nineteenth century, though the Persian examples seem to be...
A bit of biography: https://patch.com/georgia/norcross/vargas-harbin-to-feature-work-from-armenian-artist
Signed "Haider".
Inspired, if distantly, by this Millet from 1851: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Going_to_Work_by_Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet,_1851-53.jpg:...
Brief biography: http://www.gunnsgallery.co.uk/artists/647/david-short
This is the only sale I can find for one of Woodley's books (rebound in this case):...
By Nimet Varli. Very new: https://www.paykocimports.com/blog/nimet-porcelain-where-it-comes-from-and-how-its-made/
But if it was early in his career wouldn't it be signed in Cyrillic like this one?...
The immigration notices are interesting. Although there are several most seem to refer to trips to Canada or one voyage to Europe: in 1936 he...
I found an artist called Alexander F Mettel. Born Minnesota 26 November 1893, of Polish-born parents . In the 1930 census he's living in...
A museum catalogue entry for this print, which doesn't tell us a great deal more, except that it must date from before 1898:...
From familysearch: Name Karl Deichmann Sex Male Age 67 Birth Date 1863 Birthplace Holland Residence Place NYC Address 109 E 89 St Burial Date 26...
Interestingly Ruskin had some pupils whom he encouraged to make very close copies of Turner's watercolours. He wrote of Rochester On The Medway...
The one marked Callow is a copy of this Turner watercolour, rather than of the oil sketch : very exact copied in some areas, especially the water,...
More here: "Artist and illustrator on the staff of The Argus in the 1930s and 1940s." Studied in Paris in the 1950s....
Not, alas, a signature but "I of Wight".
It took me a while to recognise the subject matter in the second one (even though it's literally written there...) beyond the blur of colours....
Though the only person of that name I can find is a confectioner. Part of a Victorian shop sign maybe?...
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