Bertha
- Created by
- Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- 1960s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 1/2 x 11 1/8 in. (36.8 x 28.3 cm)
- Caption
- Bertha - Santa Monica, California, 1960's
- Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 163.
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of woman (presumedly Bertha) standing in the doorway of the "House of 'Bertha.'" The business offers card reading, tea reading, palm reading, and psychoanalysis.
- Place depicted
- Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Amusements
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family
- Object number
- 2010.74.126
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Joe Schwartz
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.