Historical Portrait
Penoyer, C., Mrs., portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed Mrs. C. Penoyer in 1909, creating this glass plate negative during his San Francisco period. Genthe maintained a studio in that city from 1896 to 1911, working in the soft-focus pictorialist style.
The 5 by 7 inch glass negative is part of a collection of roughly 20,000 items the Library of Congress acquired from Genthe's unclaimed studio after his death in 1942. The collection includes several thousand studio portraits alongside other photographic work from his four-decade career.
No further details about Mrs. Penoyer or the circumstances of this sitting have been recorded in the archive.
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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