White Studio

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White Studio was an American photographic agency active between 1903 and 1939 in New York City, best known for its photos of Broadway productions. [1] [2] It was founded by saloonkeeper Luther S. White, and operated a team of production photographers and a portrait studio on Broadway. [3] [4]

White Studio was dominant in production photography in the New York theater scene between 1905 and 1925, and specialized in panoramas of dress rehearsals and performances. [1] They photographed performers such as Bessie McCoy, Aida Overton Walker, and Adele Astaire.

After the agency ceased operation, its archives were acquired by the Theater Collection of the New York Public Library, [1] and document "more than 85% of all live performances of theater and vaudeville in New York". [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Studios, White - Broadway Photographs". broadway.library.sc.edu. University of South Carolina. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  2. ↑ Zhang, Isabelle (19 July 2024). "Aida Overton Walker & Sweet Petunias – Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective at Duke". The Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective at Duke University. Duke University. Retrieved 20 June 2025. White Studio was Broadway's most prominent photo studio in the early twentieth century and had photographed Walker throughout the years.
  3. ↑ "White Studio". www.icp.org. International Center of Photography. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  4. 1 2 "White Studio theatrical photographs - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Archived from the original on 28 April 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
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