Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gerlach, Margarett
setName: label: See more items in
content: Photographs of Karl Francis Theodore Bitter and Gustave Gerlach
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2, OVs 3-4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1895-circa 1915
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gerlmarg, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Photographs of people and Bitter's home are followed by photographs of artwork arranged by artist or studio. Artwork by unidentified artists is loosely arranged by subject matter. The photograph album is housed at the end of the series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs include six head shots of Bitter; a photo of him standing with his sculpture of Alexander Hamilton; two photos of him on horseback and with his riding club; and two photos of the exterior of one of his homes.
Photos of Bitter and Gerlach include Gerlach beside a large sculpture and one of Gerlach and Bitter in the studio with Isidore Konti. 


Photographs of Joseph Sibbel Studio are notated to indicate that they include Gerlach, Fritz Hoffman, and Joseph Sibbel. Other unidentified artists and assistants appear in many of the photographs of studios including those for the 1901, 1904, and 1915 expositions. Also found is a studio portrait of model Audrey Munson.


Photos of artwork are primarily of sculpture by Bitter, Alexander Stirling Calder, Gustave Gerlach, Isidore Konti, and others. They include busts, reliefs, statuary, and monumental sculpture. One photo of artwork by Konti is inscribed to Bitter by Konti. Also found is a photograph album which appears to primarily document the 1904 exposition and includes photographs of Adolph Weinman's Destiny of the Red Man.