Historical Portrait
Portrait photograph of Ignace Paderewski
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1 slide : lantern ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
About this photograph
This lantern slide preserves a portrait of the pianist and composer Ignace Paderewski, made in 1896. Arnold Genthe created the image. Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style and kept a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911 before relocating to New York.
The slide format suggests the photograph was intended for projection. Lantern slides allowed images to be shown to audiences before the widespread adoption of other projection technologies.
The 1896 date marks the same year Genthe established his San Francisco studio. After his death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired roughly 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio, including several thousand portraits alongside photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, dance subjects, and autochromes.
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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