Historical Portrait

Shelton, Mrs., portrait photograph

1932·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain

Shelton, Mrs, 1932 (Library of Congress)

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1 negative : safety ; 5 x 7 in.

About this photograph

Arnold Genthe photographed Mrs. Shelton in 1932. The image survives as a safety negative measuring five by seven inches.

Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style and maintained a studio in New York during this period, having relocated from San Francisco in 1911. This portrait is one of several thousand studio portraits he produced over a career spanning four decades.

The Library of Congress holds the negative as part of a collection of roughly 20,000 items acquired from Genthe's unclaimed studio after his death in 1942.

The archive record does not identify Mrs. Shelton further or provide details of the sitting.

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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