Guggenheim 16/Americans 45--U.S. 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina 1955

"Guggenheim 16/Americans 45--U.S. 1 leaving Columbia, South Carolina" is a contact sheet from Robert Frank's iconic photobook *The Americans*, published in 1959. This sheet, dating back to 1955, features a series of black and white photographs capturing scenes of everyday life in the American South, including a shot of a departing train, the interior of a diner, and an exterior shot of a building. The contact sheet offers a glimpse into Frank's artistic process, showing the raw, unedited images he captured, revealing a unique artistic perspective through the lens of documentary photography.