Historical Portrait
Neuhaus, Master, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe made this portrait of someone identified only as Master Neuhaus in 1909. The negative, preserved on nitrate film, measures five by seven inches.
Genthe kept a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911 before relocating to New York. He worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style across a career spanning four decades, until the 1940s.
After Genthe's death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio. The collection includes several thousand studio portraits alongside extensive documentation of other subjects.
The record gives no further information about the sitter's full name, age, or reason for sitting. The title's use of "Master" typically indicated a young male subject in period studio practice, but the archive provides no details to confirm this person's identity or circumstances.
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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