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Call Number:

PH-00070

Collection Name:

Arnold Genthe Photography Collection

Creator:

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)

No. of Items:

5 photographs

Span Dates:

1890s-1925

Description:

The collection consists of five photographs 5 gelatin silver prints by Arnold Genthe (American, born Germany, 1869-1942), a philologist who emigrated to the United States in 1895 and established photography studios first in San Francisco and Carmel, California, and then in New York.

964:0537:0001 -- San Francisco Earthquake 18 April 1906. Emergency Feeding of Homeless, 1906, printed later. Gelatin silver print, 20.4 x 25.2 cm;
964:0537:0002 --
964:0537:0003 -- Chinatown, San Francisco, late 1890s, printed later. Gelatin silver print, 20.4 x 25.3 cm;
964:0537:0004 -- ;

979:0087:0001 -- View of a New Orleans courtyard, 1925.

Accession No(s):

964:0537:0001-0004; 979:0087:0001

Location(s):

Genthe, A., Box (964:0537:0001-0004)
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Flat File (979:0087:0001)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)
Title	San Francisco Earthquake 18 April 1906. Emergency Feeding of Homeless
Date	1906, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	20.4 x 25.2 cm; 8 x 9 9/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0537:0001

Artist/Maker	Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)
Title	[After the San Francisco Earthquake]
Date	1906, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	20.5 x 25.4 cm; 8 1/10 x 10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0537:0002

Artist/Maker	Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)
Title	[Chinatown, San Francisco]
Date	late 1890s, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	20.4 x 25.3 cm; 8 x 10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0537:0003

Artist/Maker	Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)
Title	[Chinese Aristocrat in Chinatown, San Francisco. 1890s]
Date	late 1890s, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	25.4 x 21.5 cm; 10 x 8 1/2 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0537:0004

Artist/Maker	Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (1869 - 1942)
Title	[New Orleans courtyard].
Date	1925
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Dimensions	49.3 x 33.8 cm; 19 2/5 x 13 3/10 in
Accession Number	979:0087:0001

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See Also:

16 prints in the Literary Files: Foreign Press Service Box (P23A-B) ; Hamilton, Florence Box 2 (P100) ; Masters, Edgar Lee Box 5 (P321, 333B) ; Morley, Christopher Darlington Box 1 (P14-18), Box 10 (P827), Box 11 (P897, 915, 938) ; Scott, Evelyn Box (P47

Impressions of Old New Orleans: Additional photographs by Genthe are reproduced in