A violin maker or repairman, (luthier) cradles one of the stringed instruments in his workshop- the photograph most likely taken in California. Two versions of the same photograph were used to illustrate the photographer’s article: Bendaying the Photographic Print, published in the January, 1929 issue of Camera Craft magazine. Although this print is a different finished version from the example halftone illustrations shown, (they featured masked stipple borders) the article cutline is instructive as to the mindset of effects achieved via the Benday process: “Two renderings of the same subjects from the same negative, showing cleared highlights and border pattern. On an enlargement the effect is wonderfully better.” (p. 5)

This print finished in 1932 or later, due to the photographer’s inclusion of his F.R.P.S (Fellow, Royal Photographic Society) honorarium on the mount.