Historical Portrait

Nebolsine, Erma, portrait photograph

1936·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain

Nebolsine, Erma, 1936 (Library of Congress)

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Archive record

Title devised from Genthe's records. The electronic surrogate shows the original negative's deterioration as of 1991. A print may be ordered from an interpositive made before the image deteriorated. Credit line: Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Genthe photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.agc Forms part of: Genthe photograph collection (Library of Congress) Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Temp. note: Batch three. 1933; RR card; sleeves NUMBER: SIS 9350 duplicated before deterioration (vd# 13013) vd image reversed (vd# 13013)

About this photograph

Arnold Genthe photographed Erma Nebolsine in 1936. Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style and maintained a New York studio into the 1940s.

The archive record notes that the original negative had deteriorated by 1991, when the electronic image was made. The collection preserved the photograph by creating an interpositive before further damage occurred, from which prints can still be ordered.

This portrait forms part of the Genthe photograph collection at the Library of Congress, which acquired roughly 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio after his death in 1942. The collection includes several thousand studio portraits alongside his other work.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

Rights & Attribution

Credit: Library of Congress

Reuse: Public domain. Free to download, print, edit and republish, commercially or otherwise. How rights work in this archive.

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