New Orleans mammy – Historic Reproduction
![New Orleans mammy, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e7/e72f24c71864-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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New Orleans mammy
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Titled with a term now recognized as a demeaning stereotype, this Arnold Genthe photoprint is one of the portraits he made of African American residents in New Orleans, a city that drew him for its streets, markets, and mixed cultures in the early twentieth century. Genthe, a German-born photographer who worked in San Francisco and New York, is best known for his street and portrait studies, and his New Orleans images are now studied alongside the racial attitudes of their time. The caption card records no date, so the picture is best understood within the broader body of his work. Viewers should consider the title's language alongside the sitter's presence in the frame.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; African Americans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,107 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158249 |
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