Historical Portrait
Chilson, C., Miss, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed Miss C. Chilson in his San Francisco studio in 1909. The portrait was captured on a glass plate negative measuring five by seven inches.
Genthe maintained a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911 before relocating to New York. He worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style throughout his career. After his death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio, including several thousand studio portraits like this one.
The negative's survival as part of Genthe's archive preserves a formal portrait from the final years of his San Francisco practice. Beyond the surname and date, the archive record provides no further details about the sitter or the circumstances of the sitting.
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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