Historical Portrait
Sharps, Miss, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed a woman identified only as Miss Sharps in 1919. By that year Genthe had relocated his studio from San Francisco to New York, where he continued working in the soft-focus pictorialist style that characterized his practice.
The photograph survives as a 5 x 7 inch nitrate negative. After Genthe's death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio. This portrait is one of several thousand studio portraits in that collection.
The record provides no first name, occupation, or other details about the sitter. The circumstances of the sitting and Miss Sharps's connection to Genthe's studio remain unrecorded.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
About the format
Rights & Attribution
Explore
More from the 1910s
![[Unidentified Civil War veteran and unidentified World War I soldier], 1914 (Library of Congress)](/api/img/unidentified-civil-war-veteran-and-unidentified-world-war-i-soldier-1914-0EAgH23AdmO4s80a6WxL.jpg)
