Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooting in the early 1900s, and for photographs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The collection also includes photographs of other cities, including New York and Berlin, as well as photographs of people and places from around the world. The collection includes negatives, glass plate negatives, contact prints, proof prints, and other photographic materials, as well as personal papers, including diaries, notebooks, and correspondence. The Genthe collection provides a visual record of San Francisco during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.