Historical Portrait
Babbott children, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : safety ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed the Babbott children in 1926. The negative, measuring five by seven inches, is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style. After keeping a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911, he moved to New York, where he continued photographing into the 1940s. The Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio following his death in 1942.
The archive record does not identify how many children appear in the portrait or provide their given names.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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