My next door neighbor Elsa

Excellent group of images. Would just be careful not to crop off toes when shooting, but you've captured a great expression here. Were these the negs hanging in the garage??

Ah, yes. Toes. I think either moving up the leg or showing the toes would have been better. This way does creat a tangent. This was indeed a garage neg and a bathroom print

I like all of these very much - this one most of all - and I feel that the qualities of the lens coupled with the warmth of the print work very well together. In fact these almost look like lightly toned pop or albumen prints on my monitor. Nice work!

Oh my! She has stolen my heart. Another one you can play with masked in the 4X5 frame in the enlarger. Crop her in tighter. She's fantastic.

This is really a beautiful image. The toes being cropped out does not bother me at all and I think it works rather well the way it is. One thing you could try is to bleach the face a bit to really draw attention to it and tone down the rest of the image just a tad to really force the eye on the face. Also I would take a bit off the top, the reason is that the white marks n the background compete with her face and distract your attention away from it. The expression is just priceless. Well done.