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TitleGenthe photograph collection (Library of Congress)Other Titles (e.g. Variant)Arnold Genthe photograph collection (Library of Congress)Genthe collection (Library of Congress)TypeStill ImageCollectionSubjectGenthe, Arnold, 1869-1942Actors--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Actresses--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Artists--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Authors--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Celebrities--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Dancers--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Musicians--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Presidents--United States--1900-1920 (LCTGM)Socialites--1900-1950 (LCTGM)Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--1900-1910 (LCTGM)Ainu--1900-1910Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--1890-1930.Monterey Peninsula (Calif.)--1900-1920.Southwest, New--1900-1930New Orleans (La.)--1920-1930.Guatemala--1890-1930Japan--1900-1910Morocco--1900-1910Greece--1920-1940Portrait photographs--1900-1950 (GMGPC)Paintings--Reproductions--1890-1950 (GMGPC)Negatives--1890-1950 (GMGPC)Transparencies--1890-1940 (GMGPC)Autochromes--1900-1940 (GMGPC)Lantern slides--1890-1950 (GMGPC) SummaryMost of the images are professional studio portraits. Many of the portraits depict the cultural, social, and political elites in San Francisco (from the late 1890s to 1911) and New York City (from 1911 to 1942), and constitute a virtual visual who's who in the worlds of politics, society, literature, and the arts. Numerous images of dancers, including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Anna Pavlova, provide important documentation of the beginnings of modern dance in America. Genthe's negatives and transparencies of San Francisco's Chinatown are among the earliest street documentary photographs in the U.S. A small number of images depict the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Other photographs show selected parts of the U.S., including Yosemite Valley in California; the missions, landscape, and Hopi, Zuni, and Navajo peoples of the Southwest; life and architecture in New Orleans, Louisiana and Charleston, South Carolina. Views documenting Genthe's trips abroad depict Cuba, Guatemala, Germany, some of the Benelux countries, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Japan, includeing the Ainu people. Also photographs, some in color, of art and decorative arts collections, including Genthe's own collection of primarily Asian art. Other images are of Genthe, and people, animals, and places associated with him. The autochromes show a variety of subjects, including portraits and images of the Carmel, California area and the Grand Canyon. The lantern slides, some hand-colored, are copies of images that Genthe considered the most representative or best of his workAuthorized Access PointGenthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 Genthe photograph collection (Library of Congress)Collection ArrangementCollection Organization: Negatives and transparencies organized into 32 seriesPattern: Items arranged by subject and/or physical medium and size, with series numbers ranging from LC-G389 to LC-G432. Consult the series-level inventory of negatives and transparencies. The photographic prints are not yet cataloged.Collection Organization: ca. 10,000 prints are sorted by broad subject categories. See PR 06 CN 347 and PR 06 CN 336.Could not render: bf:pattern