Bothine, Miss, portrait photograph

Archive record

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

About this photograph

This glass plate negative from Arnold Genthe's studio shows a portrait of a woman identified only as Miss Bothine. The photograph was made in 1911, the final year Genthe maintained his San Francisco studio before relocating to New York.

Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style throughout his career, which spanned four decades from the 1890s into the 1940s. After his death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio. The collection includes several thousand studio portraits alongside his better-known work documenting San Francisco's Chinatown and photographing dancers.

The archive record provides no further information about the sitter's full name, her reason for sitting for the portrait, or her connection to Genthe's practice. Many subjects in his studio portrait collection remain similarly unidentified.

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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