1869–1942 · United States
German scholar turned photographer who captured the only surviving images of San Francisco's Chinatown before 1906.
Arnold Genthe (8 January 1869 – 9 August 1942) was a German-American photographer, best known for his photographs of Northern California, San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities. == Biography == Arnold Genthe was born in Berlin, Prussia, to Luise Zober and Hermann Genthe, a professor of Latin and Greek at the Graues Kloster (Grey Monaster…
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