Historical Portrait
Schattenstein, portrait photograph
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1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
This nitrate negative from January 1921 shows a portrait made by Arnold Genthe. The photograph depicts someone with the surname Schattenstein, though no further identifying details appear in the record.
Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style and maintained a New York studio during this period, having relocated from San Francisco about a decade earlier. The negative was part of a collection of roughly 20,000 items the Library of Congress acquired from his unclaimed studio after his death in 1942.
The 5 x 7 inch format was standard for studio portraiture of the era. Nitrate negatives from this period require careful preservation due to the chemical instability of the film base.
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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